1959 - The Original Moorgate..
The old Moorgate station, on a bright sunny day in 1959. The entire station had been badly damaged during WWII, and the platforms were completely open to the elements..
From left to right - Metropolitan 'T Stock' on the through line from Liverpool Street, 'F Stock' (probably on an Uxbridge service..) another 'T Stock' unit, LMS Fowler 3P 2-6-2T 40022 - with condensing gear, and a new Birmingham RC&W Type 2 - at that time operating on GN Suburban services.
The destination board on the 'T Stock' still says ''Moorgate St.'', even though the station had not been called that since 1924..
None of the 'F Stock' were preserved, but there are two ex-departmental 'T Stock' cars remaining, at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, and seen here in October 2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/45015600024
40022 was withdrawn at the end of 1962, and scrapped in April 1963. None of the class were preserved.
The London-area BRC&W Type 2s all moved up to Scotland, and later became BR Class 26. No less than 13 examples have been preserved, although not all of these are in working order..
The old Moorgate station was demolished in the early-1960s, and the tracks from here towards Farringdon - LT and BR 'Widened Lines' - were realigned and relocated, during the construction of the 'Barbican' Estate..
The current Moorgate sub-surface station, and lines to and from it, are completely subterranean..
Restored from a grainy misaligned truncated original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
1959 - The Original Moorgate..
The old Moorgate station, on a bright sunny day in 1959. The entire station had been badly damaged during WWII, and the platforms were completely open to the elements..
From left to right - Metropolitan 'T Stock' on the through line from Liverpool Street, 'F Stock' (probably on an Uxbridge service..) another 'T Stock' unit, LMS Fowler 3P 2-6-2T 40022 - with condensing gear, and a new Birmingham RC&W Type 2 - at that time operating on GN Suburban services.
The destination board on the 'T Stock' still says ''Moorgate St.'', even though the station had not been called that since 1924..
None of the 'F Stock' were preserved, but there are two ex-departmental 'T Stock' cars remaining, at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Quainton, and seen here in October 2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/45015600024
40022 was withdrawn at the end of 1962, and scrapped in April 1963. None of the class were preserved.
The London-area BRC&W Type 2s all moved up to Scotland, and later became BR Class 26. No less than 13 examples have been preserved, although not all of these are in working order..
The old Moorgate station was demolished in the early-1960s, and the tracks from here towards Farringdon - LT and BR 'Widened Lines' - were realigned and relocated, during the construction of the 'Barbican' Estate..
The current Moorgate sub-surface station, and lines to and from it, are completely subterranean..
Restored from a grainy misaligned truncated original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon