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Peter Frimberley · December 31st 06, 02:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:26 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Terry) wrote:

In message . 145,
Tristán White writes

Shepherd's Bush Market will make a positive change. Renaming all
three would be even better. But the best option in my opinion, but
probably impossible from an engineering prospect, would be to keep
all of them as Shepherd's Bush and link them all via underground
escalator walkways a like Monument/Bank and Kings X/St P.

Its not so much the engineering as the fact that very few
passengers are likely to use such an interchange.

[snip]

Or better still, somehow link the two together and have
them down as two different exits from the same interchange.

A physical link, such as an underground passageway, would have been
possible during the many occasions when Hammersmith Broadway has
been rebuilt over the years. I suspect that it never happened
because the number of passengers requiring such an interchange is
very small indeed.

There was a pedestrian underpass under Hammersmith Broadway! I remember
it being built, at the same time as Butterwick I expect. We used it
during the Underground trip in 1970. It wasn't closed that long ago.
Anyone know why?

I believe it is now an electricity substation. Certainly when it was
first sealed up (5-8 years ago I'd guess?) the northern end of it was
a massive fully-liftable area of paving and I'm sure I remember seeing
it open from time to time. However last year's repaving in that area
seems to have almost entirely hidden it, so either the utilities don't
need it any more, or they require a much smaller entrance now. There
is a massive underground chamber further up King Street that was
exposed when the water leak blew the road up earlier this year, which
I notice only has the tiniest of manholes to access it.

The other subway at the north-eastern corner of the Hammersmith
Gyratory was closed about four months ago, and except for some utility
pipes they ran through it first, has now been bricked up and
backfilled, as part of the new bus station construction works.