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    Liverpool Street to Bethnal Green in nine years – and still counting

    Aug 07, 2020 3 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
     COMPILED BY GARETH EVANS
    IAN LINDLEY
    JILL LINDLEY
    IAN LINDLEY

    THE one-mile journey on the former Great Eastern main line between the London terminus of Liverpool Street and Bethnal Green should take about four minutes, but it has so far taken Ian Lindley nine years, and he has yet to reach his destination.

    For rather than enjoying the comfort of a London Overground EMU, the 63-year-old retired town and country planning chief officer has chosen a painstaking, and

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