Ludgate Hill Station (remains), with RCTS Rail Tour
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Ludgate Hill Station (remains), with RCTS Rail Tour
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 10 Oct 1953
View northward, towards Holborn Viaduct, Snow Hill Tunnel and Farringdon; ex-London, Chatham & Dover and Metropolitan 'Widenend Lines' (MWL), cross - London route. The station had been closed since March 1929 and at the time of the photograph (1954) only cross-London freight trains and SR local trains to Holborn Viaduct passed there. Here on 10/10/53, the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society London Area Rail Tour has stopped briefly on its complex route, which included Battersea - Kentish Town via Blackfriars Bridge and the Snow Hill Tunnel, with ex-GN N1 0-6-2T No. 69441. The island platform of Ludgate Hill station was removed in 1974 and since 1990 the present City Thameslink Station has occupied the site.
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Image Location
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51.515736
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