Peter Frimberly wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:44:19 +0000, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message , Dave Arquati
writes

I should make clear that it's not a *huge* drop - about three
metres I guess. It's also at the top of the current embankment -
so I wondered if the railway had been shifted slightly eastwards
too to allow it to drop downwards. Of course, it could just be
something entirely uninteresting! It just looks a little
platform-like.

There are some photos that might help at:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...ad/index.shtml

Wow. It's hard to imagine that area *without* the Shepherd's Bush
Roundabout, as those pics and map show. It having been there the
whole of the time I've lived in London (20 years) and being so big
and important, you kind of imagine it's always been there!

I remember that roundabout being built in the early 70s. I don't see any
reason why the railway would have needed to be lowered or shifted east.
The whole area was cleared apart from the existing roads, and the
roundabout constructed from scratch, including two new bridges over the
railway either side of the Uxbridge Road. The roundabout is quite a bit
higher than the Uxbridge Road towards Shepherds Bush, and I particularly
remember the slope between the two being constructed, apparently by
laying huge thicknesses of tarmac on top of the existing road.

It's possible of course that the new bridges were built with enough
headroom for OHLE in the future. It was only a few years after the WCML
electrification, and I don't think the WLL had the DC third rail in
those days, so OHLE would have seemed the logical way forward.
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Richard J.
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