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Video: London Bridge was falling down (again) 40 years ago

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commuters London BridgeCommuters who travel to work via London Bridge, who have had to endure chaos on their daily journeys over the past week or more – and all in return for higher fares – may be interested to view a public information film from 1975, the previous occasion that the railway lines into London’s oldest terminus had to be reconfigured and the station re-built.

Yes. Just 40 years ago.

We are indebted to another hyperlocal blog, 853, for unearthing this gem of its time, as they lament the ending of the direct train service from Greenwich to London Bridge, the very journey for which the original station was built in 1836.

 

As 836 remarks: “Cities aren’t fixed in stone – they’re always evolving. The last train from Charing Cross to Greenwich will be a little symbol of how our capital city is changing before our eyes.

“Forty years ago, London Bridge station went through similar convulsions as the old station was torn down and the tracks relaid. Would the fag-puffing, hi-viz avoiding engineers in the Operation London Bridge video have known their work would be ripped up just four decades later?”

Meanwhile, Steve O’Connell, who is supposedly the London Assembly Member for Croydon and Sutton, remains schtum on the commuter chaos and the TfL fares hike.

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