On 9 Oct, 17:03, "Tim Roll-Pickering" qmul.ac.uk>
wrote:

There wouldn't be a problem if they routed the whole thing via
Loughborough junction, and added a diveunder/bridge somewhere in the
vicinity of Herne Hill. But for some reason they'd rather demolish the
only surviving parts of the original London Bridge station, demolish
the slim but pretty old building at the north of the platforms, and
demolish the rather beautiful Green Dragon Court (one of the last
surviving atmospherically historic bits of Borough - to the extent of
appearing in films, like Harry Potter).

Railways were often built by modernist extremists, but, apart from
Newcastle (where they demolished the outer parts of the old castle)
and Berwick (where they demolished most of the inner parts of the
castle), this takes this biscuit for its sheer brazen-facedness.