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Borough Market Junction - the notorious bottle neck on the approach to Cannon Street, Holborn Viaduct and Charing Cross Stations of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
In 2013 it is being widened with new bridge over the market: a job that should have been done by the Southern Railway as long ago as 1924, or by the British Railways Modernisation Plan in 1955, or by Beeching after 1963 his Reshaping of Britain's Railways Report, but has only been carried out as part of the second shot at Thameslink. How many hours of delays at this bottleneck have added to the cost of operating this piece of line over nearly a century since it first became a problem. Cost to both the railway and its passengers.
This inertia to meet problems of growth and change, as with the demise of the docks (see another tag), has all added to the decline of much of the effective and efficient economy in post-imperial Britain, while other sections of the economy (for example bank) streaked head. '