Talk:Liverpool Street station
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[edit] Electrification
As I understand it some original from of electrification went from Liverpool Street to Shenfield, around the 1930s using (i think) 1500v DC. I've only found a handful of mentions of it eg (p11 of [1] ) and any more details would be appreciated (eg when it was replaced by 25Kv AC) --Pickle 15:13, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
- It is mentioned here on p10 [2] (1959) that 1500v DC has been started in the early 1950s and when the rest of the Liverpool street system is electrified to 25Kv AC (adopted standard in 1954 BTC modernisation plan) the 1500v DC system will have to replaced. --Pickle 15:44, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photos
This photo might come in handy one day:
[edit] Disused line
Looking at Google maps and satellite images, there is a disused line [4] that goes up to kingsland. Does anyone know any history of this and why it was torn up? --Dean Earley 19:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Check out the Broad Street station article - it was next door to liverpool street. IIRC the east london line extension will use it. Pickle 17:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] High pitched sound/high frequency sound in station
I have noticed an annoying high pitched sound in the station every day since I started commuting through it in December 2005. A little Googling shows I am not the only one to have noticed it. I wondered if it was vermin control or perhaps some sort of crowd control device. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.72.169.116 (talk • contribs) 08:54, 24 May 2006
[edit] Sir John Betjeman
Wasn't Sir John involved in the (partial) preservation of Liverpool St Station from destruction? I also heard that there were plans (shelved) to re-name the station bar in his honour. Colin4C 22:01, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 3rd platform on the Sub Surface Underground platforms....
How long ago was it in use?
It seems rather short from what i can see of it, so i gues sit wasnt used for full length trains.
- Might find an answer somewhere on this excellent site - http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/ Pickle 10:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] "Notable events" → "As target of violence"
After due consideration, I've amended these changes, as the reasoning behind them is inherently spurious. The Bishopsgate Bomb was 200 metres away from the Underground station and so this was clearly not a specific targeting of the station as the new heading suggested. The station was damaged to a certain degree, but given that there are numerous large buildings between it and the site of the explosion, the various claims of it being "wrecked" or "destroyed" are clearly exagerations. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Bishopsgate bombing
Although there are numerous online references to this bombing "severly damaging" or even "destroying" the Underground stations, this is not reflected in any works specifically about the Underground. The latest edition of The Story of London's Underground, for example, mentions the extensive 1992 refurbishment of the station, but makes no reference to the bombing at all. Likewise, in the Capitol Transport series of books on the specific lines, neither of the Circle, Metropolitan, nor Central line ones make reference to the event. The inescapable conclusion is that the aforementioned online reports are the result of Chinese whispers, and are vastly exagerrated. Nick Cooper (talk) 08:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
