lonelytraveller wrote:
On 17 Oct, 12:52, "John Shelley"
wrote:
thoss wrote:
At 14:23:28 on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 Paul Terry opined:-

In message ,
writes

Are there/were there? Any plans to extend the Central Line past
West Ruislip?

The original (pre-war) plan was to continue two stations further
- Harefield Road and Denham. Post-war greenbelt legislation
restricted housing development, and thus potential passengers,
in the area, so this final part of the westward extension was
never built.

I have a street atlas* with a map that shows it as existing.
Denham is there, but no station at Harefield Road.

* Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London, 1940

Remember that it was being extended along the alignment of the
GW&GC Joint line, which is, probably, what is shown on the street
atlas, altough it is true that many anticipatory maps were drawn
including many of LT's internal ones

There were also plans to extend the other branch of the central
line past Ealing - it would have gone to Uxbridge, roughly along
the route of the recently abandoned West London Tram. I still
don't see why they didn't propose that instead of the tram -
digging a cut-and-cover route under the main road

I expect they got bogged down sending replies to people who sent them
the same letter six times.

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Richard J.
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