On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mr Thant wrote:

John Rowland wrote:

There is no name on the blob on the southern end of the station, so I
would suspect it was a goods facility. There is however a Grosvenor
Road Station at the north end of the bridge.

Sorry, south end of the bridge? Comparing the map with the London
Railway Atlas, the blob on the left is in the location of Pimlico
(1858-1860), the pre-Victoria terminus, which begets Battersea Wharf
goods (?-1970). The blob on the right on the through line corresponds to
Battersea Park & Steamboat Pier (1860-1870).

(The current Battersea Park was opened as "York Road" in 1867)

Aha. There we go.

Are you kidding? The hinterland would be quarter park, quarter water
works and half river. There appears not to be a single building which is
not nearer to another station.

Oops. I had failed to notice Grosvenor Road station at the north end of
the bridge; i was thinking it would be useful for the swathe of Pimlico
and Chelsea nearer to Chelsea Bridge than Victoria.

I've just noticed that there was also a canal running from Chelsea Bridge
to Victoria. Shame that's not still there, it could be rather nice.

tom

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:56:38PM +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

I've just noticed that there was also a canal running from Chelsea Bridge
to Victoria. Shame that's not still there, it could be rather nice.

Nah, it would be full of empty beer cans, shopping trolleys, sofas and
cars :-)

I believe it's the outflow from the Serpentine, the lakes in Buck House
gardens, and those in St James's Park. It's still there, just underground.
The last bit of it to be still visible was built over in the last couple
of years.

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On Sep 26, 12:32 pm, David Cantrell wrote:
I believe it's the outflow from the Serpentine, the lakes in Buck House
gardens, and those in St James's Park. It's still there, just underground.
The last bit of it to be still visible was built over in the last couple
of years.

No, that's the River Westbourne a bit further west (on-topicly enough,
through Sloane Square tube station). The Grosvenor Canal was just a
canal, the route of which was used for the tracks to Victoria station.
But yes, it has all been built on now apart from a very small basin by
the Thames.

U

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