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[@SiVlog1989]

Broad Street was one of several victims of the "closure by Stealth" tactics by British Rail. Divert services away from them, publish the resulting reductions in passenger numbers, use it as an excuse and argue for the closure of the route.
They tried the same tactics for the Settle and Carlisle line, reducing the service to two trains a day and only having Appleby station remaining open between Settle and Carlisle. If only more stations and lines were saved and thrived like the Settle and Carlisle

[@Glenn1967ful]

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.

[@SiVlog1989]

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

[@Keithbarber]

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

[@mjcats2011]

@@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.

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@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.

[@channel64_thename]

Woah! Why did you put them up? Creepy :o (0:01- 0:23)

[@CitytransportInfoplus]

Very good views of London's former Broad Street station.
The diversion to Liverpool Street stn did come to pass, but because it was inconvenient for BR to operate the diverted services so the trains were timed in ways that encouraged passengers to not use them. Whats the point of a train to work which arrives after the workplaces have opened? Or a train home before you've left work? In addition, the trains which were better timed were frequently cancelled. Therefore it is no surprise that the diversionary route soon closed.
Nowadays much of the original route is part of the London Overground East London Line.

[@kav816]

I often went on this line from Dalston, When I used to work in North London.

[@jacksugden8190]

I once used this station before closing in 1986, only one platform remained, taking a 313 EMU of I think, Silverlink Metro stock to Highbury.

[@Keithbarber]

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

[@jacksugden8190]

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

[@Keithbarber]

@@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

[@disusedchannel4852]

0:01 I don’t think that’s anything to do with broad street i think.

[@wickiezulu]

So there were shelved plans for a terminus at Worship Street, how would that have worked had the station been built?

[@darrengomes2203]

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

[@bussesandtrains1218]

you'd be suprised

[@camousjoel5043]

ça a fermé vers 1985 n'est-ce pas ? j'ai pris cette ligne à pieds en 1990

[@junkboxxxxxx]

mum's gone to the shoppes