Mizter T wrote:

Going back to something you said - I had never considered the
possibility of a line north from Dalston Jn towards Stoke Newington,
meeting the Great Eastern line there. Of course now it ain't possible,
given all the stuff in the way, but I wonder if it was ever
considered. Probably not, given that the Stoke Newington line leads
down to Liverpool Street which was bang slap next door to the now
demolished Broad Street, terminus of the line from Dalston Jn.
Nonetheless it would have been a shorter and hence quicker route into
the City, avoiding the detour via Hackney and Bethnal Green that the
Great Eastern route takes.

The Forest Line proposal was to extend the W&C to Broad St - Dalston
Junction - Dalston East Junction - Hackney Wick - Clapton - Chingford. It
never got off page one of the study which produced it (1960s or so).