{"id":3086,"date":"2023-08-24T01:29:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/no-treats-for-fbb-again\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T01:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:29:49","slug":"no-treats-for-fbb-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/no-treats-for-fbb-again\/","title":{"rendered":"No Treats For fbb – Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Big Bulbous Bloated Bludner<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n The bridge and its roads were known as Holborn Viaduct.<\/span><\/p>\n Soon a new station was built to allow Southern Railway trains to venture further north into the growing commercial and leisure (Museum’s init?) areas which grew on and round the new road. It had a very grand frontage …<\/span><\/p>\n … but not such a grand backage.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n Its usefulness and usage\u00a0<\/p><\/span>declined rapidly post WW2 and it ended up being a simple island platform with only nominal shelter …\n …and a poor trains service.<\/p>\n And fbb completely forgot<\/span> about this somewhat obscure and no longer extant terminus. But it gets worse<\/span>!<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … are two terminus platforms.<\/p>\n Complaints are common that Notwork Rail terminates trains there when the timetable starts to crumble and irate passengers are forced to (a) change and thus (b) wait.<\/p><\/div>\n As built, Moorgate was the first City terminus of the Metropolitan Railway …<\/span><\/p>\n … but later the Underground lines (Met, Hammersmith & City, Circle) ran through. National Rail trains via the so-called “Widened Lines” from northern suburbs on St Pancras and Kings Cross routes continued to terminate there, especially at peak times.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n With the he arrival of the first wave of Thameslink, these lines were electrified at 25Kv overheard and became a short branch of the through Thameslink route.<\/p>\n Then, when the full Thameslink happened, it was necessary to lengthen Farringdon’s platforms and the bit from there to Moorgate was closed. Thus Moorgate ceased to be a National Rail terminus at sub service level.<\/p><\/div>\n The line later joined the National Rail network and once again carries full sized trains. They once looked like this …<\/p>\n … and now look like this.<\/p>\n
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