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Paul and Edith's avatar

Another great piece, thanks! I wonder if there's an unexplored avenue for law enforcement (possibly needing a law change): the card machine companies will also be profiting from all these illegal sales. If they were liable for the illegal income in some way, it might make them a bit less lax about which dissolved and reconstituted companies they were happy to issue accounts to 🤔

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Hi

Really enjoying this newsletter. Thank you so much.

Your mention of Morden South reminded of when I used to work with Merton Council and we tried to persuade TfL of the merit of adding Morden South to the Northern Line.

When you look out Merton's 60s tower block offices you can see that after Morden station there are the sidings for all the Northern line trains and they reach all the way to Morden South so the track actually exists and we thought it wouldn't be beyond the wit of engineer to join it up. You then would have a link between the tootling south western branch of Thameslink and the Northern line.

Never quite worked out if it didn't take off because it was actually beyond the wit of engineer, we never got it to someone who had enough power to add something to TfL's extensive long list of potential capital projects or the people I spoke to all personally used the southern branch of the Northern line and were buggered if they were going to make it any busier.

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