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Post by Ben on Apr 17, 2006 21:48:15 GMT
Anyone know the route of the proposed extension of the Metropolitan railway from Edgware Road, and the stations along the way? I remember reading it somewhere but I can't find it now  Many thanks |
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Post by Tomcakes on Apr 17, 2006 22:26:44 GMT
The one which would join at Finchley road?
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Post by Ben on Apr 17, 2006 22:29:34 GMT
Ooh, im not sure about that either now. How many proposals were there? And what was the final one that Edgware Road was rebuilt for?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2006 22:47:25 GMT
It was a 1925 proposal from Kilburn to Edgware Road, joining at both ends via flat junctions. I have lost access to my books so I can't say what the intermediate stations were meant to be.
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Post by mandgc on Apr 18, 2006 0:47:17 GMT
The proposed line was to leave the Main Line between Willesden Green and Kilburn and run under Kilburn High Road and Maida Vale, in tube, with stations at Quex Road, Kilburn Park Road and Clifton Road, joining the Circle between Pread Street Junction and Edgware Road Station. A cut and cover flat junction there would allow trains to run to the City.
An Act was obtained and Edgware Road station was rebuilt to accomodate the extra trains.
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Post by Ben on Apr 18, 2006 1:00:58 GMT
Thanks for that Mandgc. I'm suprised that a relief line was going to end in two flat junctions. Surely that would be a constraint?
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Post by mandgc on Apr 18, 2006 9:46:46 GMT
It might have been difficult to construct a flyunder junction at Edgware Road so close to the station, at sub-suface level and in so congested an area.
The Met only had one flying junction , at Harrow North, and built the Stanmore junction as flat in 1932. Perhaps they thought it was sufficient for Peak Traffic to have priority at a flat junction.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 12:07:00 GMT
Are you sure it was to have joined between Praed Street and Edgware Road, and not between Edgware Road and Baker Street?
And at that date I don't think Harrow North Junction was grade-separated yet - wasn't it grade-separated about twenty years before the quadrupling in 1960?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2006 12:37:46 GMT
According to my jubbly line book it was grade seperated at teh time of quadrupling.
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Post by Harsig on Apr 18, 2006 13:19:46 GMT
According to my jubbly line book it was grade seperated at teh time of quadrupling. Assuming you are referring to Wembley then that is not correct. Quadrupling between Wembley and Harrow predated the opeing of the Stanmore Branch. The flyunder was created when the whole line between Finchley Road and Wembley was remodelled and resignalled in connection with the extension of Bakerloo Line trains to Stanmore. |
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Post by Harsig on Apr 18, 2006 13:26:20 GMT
Are you sure it was to have joined between Praed Street and Edgware Road, and not between Edgware Road and Baker Street? Yes quite sure, as this diagram of the then new signalling at Edgware Road shows. The other half of the diagram can be seen hereNo this was done much earlier at about the same time as the proposals for the line under discussion. |
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Post by mandgc on Apr 19, 2006 0:11:10 GMT
The flyunder of the Uxbridge line beneath the Rickmansworth line was opened in 1925 in connection with the electrification to Rickmansworth and the new Watford branch. Before that both West and North Harrow lines shared a double track from north of Harrow to the flat 'Harrow North Junction'.
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Many thanks
