On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Olof Lagerkvist wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Oh, and if any map-botherers fancy a laugh, have a look at what Google
thinks the DLR does north of Bow Church. I think i know where they got
the idea from, but i can't imagine *how*, given the dates. Or maybe
they know something about future plans for the DLR that i don't!
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. As for the map, well, the
track does go that way, it's just that it doesn't join up because it's at
the wrong altitude. Before the Central was extended to the east after WW2,
the line from Leyton onwards was an LNER line that ran into Liverpool
Street; presumably, it actually did join the Lea Valley line here.
There is a similar strange Central Line connection on the other side of
London around White City where the overground Central Line tracks do not
end and disappear into a tunnel, but instead look like connected to the
West London Line.
Oh, that is weird. It's particularly weird in that there are in fact
overground tracks east of the Wood Lane bridge, but the map chooses to
ignore them in favour of the WLL connection!
I wonder if such a connection ever existed around there.
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.
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.
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.
...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
tom
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