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I was looking the Dudding Hill Line roughly around the closed Harlesden station and was wondering if there were any brief historic ideas for a branch to Willesden Junction towards Euston and onto the West London Line?

Would the unfinished Euston connecting tunnel be the same as the one seen in Rail Map Online, which appears to show an uncompleted route that stops at Midland Road where present day Gothic Bar is located or is that something else entirely?

Read the other day about an aborted plan to extend the City Widened Lines to Euston, supposedly sourced on page 75 in one of the London Railway Atlas editions. I am interested in the background behind this proposal for the City Widened Lines, when it was first conceived as well as what route...

Thanks for the recommendation, will look to try and track down a copy. Is it specifically the later editions that would have what am looking for or will the earlier editions suffice? Additionally are other proposed schemes from the GER and other companies included?

The following link brings up ambitious plans to extend this GER line beyond Ongar to Dunmow or back to the GER mainline at Chelmsford that never saw the light of day. http://www.urban75.org/london/ongar.html While a map of the former scheme known as the Central Essex Light Railway is shown on...

Thanks. The proposed extensions options for the Knightsbridge terminius would have been certainly limited had it been built, cannot see the Royals and others approving a link to Charing Cross. Maybe they also played a discrete role in underminding Brunel's GWR proposed route from Paddington to...

Was the route to run along or through Knightsbridge station? Take it the alignment prevents any link to Victoria to transform both into through stations. Cannot say have heard of the Westminster Railway plan to build a branch off the SWML across the river to a terminus near the Houses of...

Do you recall whereabouts in Knightsbridge this West London Line branch terminus plan was to be located roughly? The site on the river bank at the south-west corner of Vauxhall Bridge at Grosvenor Road is mentioned alongside the planned terminus at Euston for the GWR in the admittingly dated...

With Alan A. Jackson’s London’s Termini in mind, it is known what other locations were considered for becoming a London Rail Termini (sans expansions of existing stations) apart from the Southwark Railway Terminus proposal as well as schemes to White City and Smithfield (the latter two being one...

Indeed. Despite not being given Royal Assent it is possible details would be avaliable in the Parliamentary archive or another source for the earlier 1891 London, Tottenham & Epping Railway scheme (for a railway from Whitecross Street to Waltham Abbey via Tottenham and Walthamstow) before its...

The Chingford extension was one of a number of proposed schemes towards High Beech and Waltham Abbey, IIRC the High Beech stop was to be at the Junction of Avey Lane and Pynest Green Lane while the proposed Waltham Abbey stops was to be at Farm Hill Road opposite the Green Man public house...

Its from London's Lost Tube Schemes book, though interested in finding out more about this and related schemes from other sources. There were actually a number of proposals for railway schemes to High Beech, with some plans to travel to Waltham Abbey via High Beech.

Have been reading about the 1894-1899 proposals for the London, Walthamstow & Epping Forest Railway (LW&EFR) from South Place Finsbury Circus to High Beech though interested to know more about the following: 1 - Does any information exist as to what planned stations were envisaged between...

Rail Map online appears to display the triangular junctions at Wickford, Maldon and Witham.

Would have to agree, also wonder whether there would have been an opportunity later on to link up to the LTSR at Southend East / Thorpe Bay if not also lay the groundwork for an eventual terminus at Shoeburyness. Did any of the Great Eastern proposals to South East Essex include a route to...

Understand, thanks for clarifying things. Can see from the following map published in 1898 how such a link was out of the question.

Interested to know what the original plans were for the Shenfield-Southend Line, as find it curious the terminus at Southend Victoria ended up not being far from the LTSR stop at Southend Central. Were there any proposals to directly link the Shenfield-South Line to the LTSR, possibly via a...

Understand there was never any intention for such a connection from Waterloo towards Charing Cross, just noting there was once a window of opportunity had there been any desire towards it.

Thanks for the screenshot, interesting indeed that such a route from Waterloo to Charing Cross was once possible. Largely agree that an expanded LSWR route would have probably been better off traveling towards Blackfriars, Cannon Street or London Bridge and beyond as opposed to Charing Cross...

Fascinating, so the LWSR could have potentially ran to London Bridge at one point and had it been realized would presumably have also opened up the possibility for trains from Waterloo to eventually run to Blackfriars and Cannon Street (albeit at the cost of likely butterflying away Waterloo...