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The station on the map should be called – as it is already by Network Rail – Brent Cross West, which is about 1..5km from Brent Cross Northern Line. https://transformingbx.co.uk/transformation/brent-cross-west/
Love the robot parking!
The automated parking video is fascinating.
There used to be a much cruder version of this sort of car park near Fetter Lane, very near the former Maxwell House (Mirror HQ). All now demolished following the redevelopment of that area.
I used it a few times in the 1980s when driving into central London seemed normal rather than anti social. You stopped in the street and the car park attendees then drove your car onto the mechanical rack that then lifted it into the higher floors – those attendants invariably had a ciggie on the go so my car would be returned reeking of smoke – ugh. As well as the ciggie smoke, there was often a stink of avgas too, if the helicopter that Robert Maxwell used to commute from Kidlington to central London was landing/taking off from the roof of Maxwell House.
@IslandDweller Sounds like a coffee pot or the latest BBC exposé, it was Daily Mirror building, Holborn Circus. After 1994 replaced with the headquarters of J. Sainsbury.
Re. the ELR fracas, I like the idea of “our” independent investigation. It was such a splendid idea, there were two of them.
@Garry Brown
Definitely some doubleplusgood Newspeak going on at the East Lancs Railway…