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Broad St had potential, it could have been used for the Overground and for services on the Watford DC line and some peak services to Milton Keynes.

@@Glenn1967ful it could certainly have freed up space at Euston in Retrospect

In retrospect, Broad street was doomed and the potential only hypothetical really Withdrawal and diversion of great northern services to moorgate in 1976 with electric trains saw much of broad streets traffic lost, keep running services to broad street made little, if any, sense, given the close proximity of the 2 stations, and running services via canonbury curve from great northern metals to north london line metals was wasteful duplication, and passengers can now travel via highbury and islington And the lions share of route to dalston junction is now part of a thriving railway (covid19 losses accounted for), and to link into the former east london line and build shoreditch high street in lieu of shoreditch underground and broad street has negated and compensated for broad streets closure Likewise,the closure of primrose hill was criticised, but it no longer had a service and the area is served by the northern line at chalk farm and they can travel to Camden town and a short walk to Camden road and can reach most destinations previously reached by primrose hill The electrification and diversion of the north London line to north woolwich in 1985 saw an upsurge in line usage, helped non doubt by the new capitalcard season tickets, The Watford service probably lost patronage via its diversion

@@Glenn1967ful Broad Street was hamstrung by having no direct access to a main line. Had Broad Street existed the current NLL would have been reduced as the NLL is at capacity. Also the ELL would not have been built. Closing Broad Street with its Minimal Passenger numbers due to most services being transferred was the right thing to do.

@@mjcats2011 I think the station was allowed to steadily decline, as most of it was closed and boarded up in the 1960s and in the end, only services to Watford and Richmond remained that were lightly used.

Silverlink wasn't formed until 1997 -10/11 years after this was filmed

@@Keithbarber Thank you, as I find it hard to remember it all in great detail.

@@jacksugden8190 I remember the detail extremely well as it did not seem to fit the then neglected and unreliable barking to gospel oak line using tatty and rattling old slam-door DMU's until 2000/1 when class 150 sprinters were drafted in and stayed for about 10 years

No, he was saying that was where they were cutting the line off into Broad Street, which is where they removed the bridges.

you'd be suprised