City Thameslink
700141 with Thameslink train to Horsham at City Thameslink, looking back north, on 15th May 2021. This station is built in the Snow Hill tunnel that closed to passengers in 1916 and to freight in 1971. It lay disused until 1988 when the tracks were relaid and it reopened for Thameslink services, introducing for the first time through Bedford to Brighton trains. Thameslink services from the ECML began in 2018. At first, trains ran through from Farringdon to Blackfriars but in 1990 this new station, at first called St. Paul's Thameslink, was built in the tunnel. It is more or less on the site of the old Holborn Viaduct Low Level station (known as Snow Hill until 1912) that closed in 1916. Back in 1969 I secured a seat on a London railtour that traversed the tunnel two years before it was abandoned.
Location: City Thameslink
Original line: Metropolitan Extensions: Herne Hill to the Metropolitan Railway (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Date: 15/05/2021
Image number: 84494
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