AHC\WI\PC: Joint London Central Station?

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
Immediately after the war the country was broke and only being kept afloat thanks to American and Canadian loans plus the Sterling area, we didn't end rationing until 1954. The idea of this kind of expensive programme when large parts of the population are either homeless from the war or still living in slums is going to see you laughed out of the room in favour of homebuilding as they already have stations that they can get by with for the minimum of repairs and maintenance. After that starts to stabilise somewhat you then run into the problem of London's population which declined by roughly 20% over the 40 years between the 1940s and the 1980s, again it argues against large vanity projects if there's no major pressure on the current system.

Sorry filer that i didn't specify, but i was thinking of the Canary Wharf etc some where in the 60's after the start of "Containerisation".

Would that be a better answer for the thread?

Cheers filer.
 
Sorry that I didn't specify, but I was thinking of the Canary Wharf etc. somewhere in the 1960s after the start of "Containerisation". Would that be a better answer for the thread?
Unfortunately not, for some bizarre reason government had started getting worried about the growing concentration of offices and employment and was actively forcing companies to relocate out of London. The Labour government of 1964 instituted what became known as the 'Brown Ban' on London office development which required companies to apply for an Office Development Permits from the Location of Offices Bureau if they wanted to build new ones, extending the scheme to Birmingham as well a couple of years later, plus IIRC they also still had powers on the books that could block companies moving between already existing sites. They apparently relocated somewhere around 250,000 jobs out of London between then and when the Conservatives repealed the controls in 1979. You've also got the worsening economic situation as the 1960s leading up to the devaluation of the pound in 1967. Now that's not to say that it's ASB but you'd have to make a number of large changes to create the conditions to make it possible.
 
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