The Times has an article today about a disusedtunnel under the 'nursery end' which is due for development, and has been owned by a third party ...being sold by Railtrack 10 years ago. Apparently MCC only own the ground over it. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article3716497.ece Were Railtrack really able to make a permanent decision back...
... and the north-south alignment at Dalston Junction - indeed, for most of the time only one of the two stations were ever actually open for use. There's more info on Dalston Junction on the 'Disused Stations' website here: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/d/dalston_junction/index.shtml If you take a look at the old map towards the bottom of that page you'll see that Dalston ...
....uk> wrote: Tom Anderson wrote: I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving Finchley Road, i believe. They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops. Â There are three at West Hampstead, and the overlap with Finchley Road's routes is minimal, so unless many routes ...
...>At one point the Met. considered building a mainline size tube to link their "Main Line" to Edgware Road Station. and Watkin considered a spur from the GC to the Circle Line - he intended this to be used by his through expresses from Manchester to Paris via the W**dh**d and C*****l Tunnels. Peter IIRC the foundations of the Great Central Hotel were designed accordingly.
... I'm going way off topic here but wouldn't you need to build connecting passages, maybe a new entrance as well? AIUI the Met platforms at Swiss Cottage, and the Met stations at Lords and Marlborough Road closed at the same time (20 November 1939) as the Bakerloo opened between Baker Street and Finchley Road, and took over the stopping services from there to Stanmore. At Swiss Cottage ...
On 17 Apr, 18:25, "Peter Masson" <peter.mass...@privacy.net> wrote: IIRC South Hampstead has the remains of long disused platforms on the WCML Slow Lines, as well as the extant platforms on the DC Lines. Is the medium term plan still to extend the ELLX to Queens Park via Primrose Hill, so that they would serve south Hampstead, extend the Bakerloo Line to Watford Junction, and to ...
... would normally be described as being on the DC lines, which follow the WCML alignment most of the way to Watford Jn, but is it the WCML? IIRC South Hampstead has the remains of long disused platforms on the WCML Slow Lines, as well as the extant platforms on the DC Lines. Is the medium term plan still to extend the ELLX to Queens Park via Primrose Hill, so that they would serve south...
...: Tom Anderson wrote: I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving Finchley Road, i believe. They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops. So? Maybe the point is that you could transfer the Met from Finchley Road to West Hampstead, and ...
...> Tom Anderson wrote: I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving Finchley Road, i believe. They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops. So? Maybe the point is that you could transfer the Met from Finchley Road to West Hampstead, and also reopen the ...
...> wrote: Tom Anderson wrote: I think this not insubstantial - there are six bus routes serving Finchley Road, i believe. They also serve Swiss Cottage, which has disused Met platforms, and entrances at northbound and southbound bus stops. So? Maybe the point is that you could transfer the Met from Finchley Road to West Hampstead, and also reopen the Met ...
