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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 16:04:49 GMT
If this doesn't belong here, please move ....
The Church Lane underpass just south of Leytonstone - built c1947 to replace the LC at the station and entailed excavating a cutting and provision of a new underbridge (16A?) - is no more - it went with the works for the A12 (M11 link) which itself passes by Leytonstone station on the west side in a deep cutting, opening in October 1999. I cannot find a date for the underpass closure, but I think it was still in use as late as 1987. Can anyone help, please?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 16:53:46 GMT
Bus routes 206 and 235 ran through via the underpass until 6/3/1989, when they were replaced by W13, W14, W15 and W16. The Summer 1991 bus map shows W13 & W14 (and the remaining 235 school journeys) still running through the underpass to terminate at the west entrance to the station (but this may be wrong - I'll have to look through the TLBs from the time)'
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Post by elsombernie on Jan 16, 2015 18:42:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 22:34:09 GMT
Thank you very much. Greatly appreciated.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 2:56:16 GMT
Remember this very well as it is just two streets away from me. 1989 was when I would have been at secondary school (giving my age away) and remember my route being blocked off by acres of blue hoardings. Also remember the Kirkdale Road bus station coming into use in what seemed like an age to a young biped some eight years later....I recall walking past the seemingly unused expanse with some bemusement as a kid. Then Waltham Forest invented the back to front one way system just to confuse us all. But, bringing it back to the tube, the beautiful pine trees and winding entrance to the ticket hall, the flower shop and the the newsagent was wiped away to give us 'Leytonstone Plaza'...an abomination unto all, with a sort-of-brick-statue-of-a-bus-pileup  Not my image: leytonstonelondone11.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/leytonstone-plaza-2.jpgMeh! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 3:03:38 GMT
Incidentally, if anyone has any pics of Leytonstone station (Grove Green Road side)before it was despoiled I would be massively grateful. I was a bit too young to have thought about taking pics for historical value at the time...Google has nothing |
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 17, 2015 8:39:13 GMT
Incidentally, if anyone has any pics of Leytonstone station (Grove Green Road side)before it was despoiled I would be massively grateful. I was a bit too young to have thought about taking pics for historical value at the time...Google has nothing I found this picture of the other side after a search of "old Leytonstone pictures". I'll make a better effort later and see if I can turn something up on the GGR side.  I've had a cup of tea now........I think these are from the GGR side although not of the actual station itself. Search this time was "Grove Green Road Church Lane Leytonstone"   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 1:30:46 GMT
Thank you Whistlekiller...brought back some memories...
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Post by superteacher on Jan 18, 2015 13:08:49 GMT
Yes me too. Most Sunday's during the summer, the family (including grandparents, cousins etc) would drive up to Hign Beach. As we lived in Shoreditch at the time, the route would take us via Hackney Marshes and Leytonstone. I'd always try to spot a 1962 stock train as we went under the bridge. Didn't manage it very often as Sunday services back then were a lot less frequent than now.
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 18, 2015 13:50:36 GMT
You're both very welcome!
I'm not sure if one's available for Leytonstone but my old man's got a copy of "Old Woodford" which is rammed full of really good pictures from yesteryear including a fair few of the railway.
Maybe worth a trip to a library (remember them, before Google was invented?) to see if it exists.
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Post by arun on Jan 18, 2015 14:12:34 GMT
Greetings All- Photo 26 in "Branch Line to Ongar" by JE Connor pub. Middleton Press 2007, ISBN 978-1-906008-05-5 shows, in closeup, the church road entrance to the subway. There are a whole series of photographs of the station and its trackwork in this book. Well worth a read and well up to the standard from this publisher. Alan Simpson also published a short history, "How the Railway Came to Leytonstone" via the Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society in 2006 -ISBN 978-0-9553729-0-2 which has fewer pics but is also a worthwhile read.
Arun
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Post by stapler on Jan 18, 2015 22:01:56 GMT
Also a couple of pics pre-LT (and much of interest on the line) in Pond, Strugnell & Martin, "the Loughton Railway 150 years on" ISBN 19052690408 (2006)
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