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Post by snoggle on May 23, 2018 14:08:40 GMT
More interesting that you might think. Brilliant Maps have created a modern day style of tube map that incorporates the Tube system as at 1946 but also adds all of the schemes that were proposed in the Railway (London Plan) Committee: report to the Ministry of War Transport 21st January 1946. An article and zoomable map is available via this weblink. brillianttrains.com/what-if-tube-map/Clearly some valuable bits of today's tube system are not on that map - Vic Line, JLE, Heathrow extensions. However the proposals to create lots of Crossrail type services ties lots of South London's railway lines into a much wider network. Fascinating read.  |
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Post by snowman on May 23, 2018 14:25:47 GMT
Here is a link to the original, with maps at the back archive.org/details/railways00609132Route 8 (one of the high priority routes) effectively became Victoria line Crossrail 2 was effectively proposed 74 years ago (its called route 9 on this version) I love the fact there was a wonderfully named Mr J C L Train in the members (Chief engineer LNER) |
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Post by redexpress on May 23, 2018 16:41:23 GMT
Fascinating. There'd have been quite a bit of tunnelling work if all of those plans had been implemented. Looking at what London Bridge station has become it's strange to think that it would have disappeared completely under these proposals.
Obviously many of the cross-London links would be immensely useful today, but what stands out for me is the absence of any orbital links; everything is aimed at funnelling people in and out of the city centre. Of course London was a very different place back then.
The absence of any plan to link to Heathrow is mentioned on the map, but hardly surprising given that the airport was only just opening to civil traffic.
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Post by Whitherminter on May 23, 2018 22:00:16 GMT
That is one heck of a District Line!
Even in an alternate universe, Thamesmead still doesn't get a rail link. Without the DLR & what would have been the busy 'Canary Wharf', the east side of London looks a bit...dry to me!
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Post by Alex on May 24, 2018 10:20:14 GMT
Even in an alternate universe, Thamesmead still doesn't get a rail link. Without the DLR & what would have been the busy 'Canary Wharf', the east side of London looks a bit...dry to me! Thamesmead wasn’t there! At the time it would have been marshland and bits owned by the authorities to do with Woolwich Arsenal. The first bit of Thamesmead as we know it was populated in 1968. The Gooch family being the first to move in at a place in Coraline Walk (Harrow Manor Way, near Barge Pole pub)....... The link issue is an old one though, reading accounts and watching video of the first residents (being used to more central surroundings) a lot of people felt pretty isolated in the area. |
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