The Widened Lines (also known as the City Widened Lines; formerly known as the Moorgate line) is a double-track railway line forming part of the Thameslink...
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to 2007, served the City Widened Lines and later the Thameslink service. The southbound Metropolitan and northbound Widened shared an island platform...
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shuttle service from King's Cross to Farringdon Street via the City Widened Lines, but through suburban services did not use this line until 1 March 1868...
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the largest Union military hospitals. Widener invested his $50,000 profit in horse-drawn city streetcar lines. He grew to prominence in Philadelphia...
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between King's Cross and Moorgate being widened to four tracks; the route was called the City Widened Lines and included a new tunnel at Clerkenwell...
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between King's Cross and Moorgate being widened to four tracks in 1868; the route was called the 'City Widened Lines'. Suburban services from the Midland...
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St Pancras International and City Thameslink using part of the City Widened Lines and Snow Hill Tunnel respectively. Services are operated using Class...
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for the Hammersmith & City and Circle lines. It was expanded in 1868 with the opening of the City Widened Lines, and the Northern and Piccadilly platforms...
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recently opened Metropolitan Railway's Widened Lines, south of Farringdon station. To the north-west, the Widened Lines in turn connected to the tracks of...
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join the City Widened Lines to Farringdon, Barbican and Moorgate. In the other direction, trains from Moorgate came off the Widened Lines via the Hotel...
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fitted with condensing apparatus for working on the Metropolitan Railway Widened Lines between King's Cross and Moorgate. The N2s were designed for suburban...
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British Rail's original intention to work the locos across London on the Widened Lines but the locomotives were found to be too heavy. The first of the class...
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Metropolitan Railway (category Railway lines opened in 1863)
ticket collectors. The City Widened Lines assumed major strategic importance as a link between the channel ports and the main lines to the north, used by troop...
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on through the Snow Hill Tunnel to join the Metropolitan Railway's Widened Lines at Farringdon Street (now Farringdon), with a pair of low-level platforms...
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through the main doors of Harvard's Widener Library, the only visible sign says merely ENTER." At times color-coded lines and shoeprints have been applied...
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Goods depots were opened in the Farringdon area, accessed from the City Widened Lines. The GWR opened Smithfield Market Sidings in 1869, the GNR opened its...
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Circle line (London Underground) (redirect from City Lines and Extensions Railway)
before passing over the Ray Street Gridiron beneath which pass the City Widened Lines which are currently used by Thameslink services. The line continues...
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Trains to Moorgate ran to King's Cross York Road then used the City Widened Lines. Trains to Broad Street ran via the Canonbury curve and the North London...
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Holborn Viaduct–Herne Hill line (category Railway lines in London)
south portal of Snow Hill tunnel merging into Snow Hill lines. From there the Widened Lines to St Pancras and Kentish Town are reached. Today the section...
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Northern City Line (category Railway lines in London)
Line, but it is rarely referred to as this due to confusion with the Widened Lines route from Kentish Town to Farringdon, which, until March 2009, also...
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girders supporting the main station and track. The connection to the Widened Lines (St. Pancras branch) ran below the station's bottom level, in an east-to-west...
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from Bedford via the Midland Main Line to St Pancras, and via the City Widened Lines to Moorgate. The Snow Hill tunnel was re-opened by British Rail to passenger...
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Hammersmith & City line (category London Underground lines)
passes over the Ray Street Gridiron that carries the route over the City Widened Lines used for Thameslink services. There are bay platforms at Moorgate. Just...
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tunnel between Old Oak Common and Chalk Farm, and then to use existing widened lines along the North London Line to connect to HS1 north of St Pancras. The...
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the line is housed on this page for technical reasons. There were many lines connecting with collieries etc. branching off the ECML. These are generally...
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whole class was fitted with condensing apparatus for working on the Widened Lines. For many years the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) had favoured...
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around London they were used on freight trains over the Metropolitan Widened Lines, locos so used being fitted with London Transport tripcocks – although...
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rebuilt in 1932 when two loop lines were put in. This entailed the platforms being moved back to accommodate the widened lines. These platforms are clearly...
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connected the two parts of the hotel together. In 1887, Hungerford Bridge was widened to 48 feet 9 inches (14.86 m) in order to provide three more tracks into...
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Great Central lines south of Aylesbury for local services into London, including the alternative route south of Haddenham and widened lines south of Neasden...
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