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How feasible is it to have London develop a multi-destination Hauptbahnhof through the following ATL scenarios:
*The british rail network develops so that the mainline serving the East Midlands is build as a branch line coming of the west coast mainline South of Leicester and that East Coast trains to York and Newcastle also use this line and use an ATL mainline spur from Nottingham which follows the OTL East Coast route North of York. This way virtually all long distance trains from London to the northern cities use an enlarged Euston by 1900
*Then have all Southern, SouthEastern and Southwestern Trains run into a super Victoria rather than their respective Myriad of termini
*Have all Chiltern trains use the New North Mainline to reach Paddington, rather than Marylebone, by 1900

And then at any time after 1900, when the underground already exists, join up the Euston and Victoria stations with an ATL Crossrail Link, do the same with Paddington and Liverpool Street and where the two lines meet build a colossal station with state of the art everything and have it be London's main station.
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