Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Olof Lagerkvist wrote:
At least they don't have Ilford - Newbury Park on the map... But I
don't follow the logic behind the map anyway. South of Newbury Park
when the line enters the tunnel to Leytonstone the line just ends on
the map. But south of Leyton the line does not end and disappear into
a tunnel but is instead drawn as connected to the NLL tracks...
That's not the NLL, it's the Lea Valley line.
Oops, of course I should now that, I used to travel Tottenham Hale -
Stratford a lot on that line last year.
Bingo! AIUI, this was the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway - this was
built as a branch off the WLL at that point to go to the GWML (don't ask
me how that works). The Central used to terminate at a depot where White
City is now, and it was extended a little way north, via the tracks that
Google doesn't know about, to meet the E&SBR and run over it.
Thanks, I did not check Clive's site.
I should point out that this understanding is based entirely on CULG and
the caption of one of Clive's photos taken around Wood Lane, so this
whole railway could be an elaborate ruse of Clive's.
CULG is usually right, I would think.
It does look like there could have been something like that when
looking around that area on the ground but in that case it would be
buried under Westway nowadays...
There was (again according to Clive) also a link from the H&C to the WLL
around here, so that trains could run from Paddington to Kensington
Olympia etc.
That is an interesting one. It is clearly visible from a train (or on
the Google satellite images) where it branched off the H&C Line. It is
not exactly that easy to point out today where it joined the WLL though,
probably all traces of that were lost when West Cross Route was built.
Someone has posted a placemark on Google Earth:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthrea.../Number/583687
...and not to mention their new location of Shoreditch station:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51....,0.014377&z=15
Well remembered, Olof!
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....c929cd3c55f3cb
Yes, I remembered that one and amazingly the error is still there.
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