Re: Never-built railway in Uxbridge?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:54:21 +0100, "Mortimer" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>"Paul Scott" <notvalidpmscott@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>news:3KednQYpG9YDhkXVRVnyiwA@bt.com...
>> Mortimer wrote:
>>> As I was looking for something else on the large-scale maps of
>>> Uxbridge on www.old-maps.co.uk, I noticed on the 1932 and 1935 maps
>>> there was a "railway under construction" that left the Vine
Street
>>> branch off the GWR main line, just south of Vine Street station, ran
>>> north-west and then turned north and joined up end-on with the branch
>>> off the GWR line through Denham.
>>> I imagine that this would have been used as a route from one GWR main
>>> line to the other.
>>>
>>> Was it ever built? I can't see any trace of it on my 1960 OS map.
>>
>> Joe Brown's London Railway Atlas describes the link as never completed,
>> and shows no dates. It is implied that the link was an extension of the
>> High St branch southwards towards the existing Vine St branch.
>
>Thanks. I've just found the following entry on
>http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/:
>http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/u/uxbridge_high_street/index.shtml
>which says that the intention right from the outset was to continue the
>branch from Denham to join the Vine Street branch, but the section south of
>High Street was never built. I wonder whether work on any of the earthworks
>was ever started?
>
Yes and no.  High Street station included a piece over the pavement,
clearly intended to the first part of a railway bridge over the road.
Pictures quite easy to find.  The rest of the route to Vine Street was
protected for many years, and was traceable until quite recently,  but
no earth works were started.

Guy Gorton
[ Auf dieses Posting antworten ]
Antworten

MattM (23.09.2008 23:17)