Apologies if the following query has been asked previously, though interested to know what historical proposals there were for the City Widened Lines as far as eastward extensions beyond Moorgate were concerned?
While it is probably the case of Moorgate being close enough to reach the City of London in terms of main objective when it was initially conceived, with the cost of extending a sub-surface route like the City Widened Lines eastwards (plus land values) being greater compared to a bored tunnel (as mentioned in a past loosely-related thread). At what point eastwards was it theoretically possible for the City Widened Lines to go beneath the Metropolitan/Circle/H&C past Moorgate as was the case with the route between King’s Cross and Farringdon?
How feasible would it have been for example for City Widened Lines past Liverpool Street from Moorgate (yet before Aldgate Junction akin to the upcoming Crossrail 1) to connect onto the GEML (possibly via Bishopsgate / Old Spitalfields if not at Bethnal Green Overground, etc) in a roughly similar manner to the nearby historical 1913 proposal to link the GN&CR at Old Street to the MR at Liverpool Street via Finsbury Circus?
While it is probably the case of Moorgate being close enough to reach the City of London in terms of main objective when it was initially conceived, with the cost of extending a sub-surface route like the City Widened Lines eastwards (plus land values) being greater compared to a bored tunnel (as mentioned in a past loosely-related thread). At what point eastwards was it theoretically possible for the City Widened Lines to go beneath the Metropolitan/Circle/H&C past Moorgate as was the case with the route between King’s Cross and Farringdon?
How feasible would it have been for example for City Widened Lines past Liverpool Street from Moorgate (yet before Aldgate Junction akin to the upcoming Crossrail 1) to connect onto the GEML (possibly via Bishopsgate / Old Spitalfields if not at Bethnal Green Overground, etc) in a roughly similar manner to the nearby historical 1913 proposal to link the GN&CR at Old Street to the MR at Liverpool Street via Finsbury Circus?