Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden
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Your route on the "City Widened Lines" to Farringdon and Moorgate (parallelling the Circle Line) ceased when the Great Northern suburban electrification at last (after 80-odd years) took its intended underground route from Finsbury Park via Drayton Park to the deep-level station at Moorgate which had been the location of the Moorgate tube train disaster.
The other electrification, originally christened "Bedpan", still uses the City Widened Lines, with the Thameslink route to Brighton turning right at Farringdon. The rump to Moorgate is to close in March so they can extend the Farringdon platforms as part of what was laughingly called Thameslink 2000 and is now due to open in time for the London Olympics (possibly).
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