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Is it true that the tunnel segments that Horace Cutler bought, when the GLC was trying to extend the line beyond Aldwych; ended up as a pedestrian walkway at Kings Cross, going to the Pentonville road exit. Have never been able to authenticate this story.
A small portion of test tunnel was dug near New Cross with the intention of being eventually incorporated into an extension into South East London:

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/04/03/south-londons-abandoned-tube-tunnel/

Good to see you've gone full metric for this post !
It seems absolutely incredible that Addiscombe was once proposed at the terminus. That station would have made Roding Valley look busy.

Now closed, demolished and covered by housing development (and not the site of Addiscombe tram stop).

Only really rational explanation is that they were proposing to take over the small depot there.
There was a brief bit of lobbying about whether the line should go north of the Thames, via East India Dock, or south, via North Greenwich.

The Financial Times, which had just built a huge printing plant at EID, wanted the former. I suppose if it had won it might have moved its editorial and sales staff there do.

But North Greenwich won, and as a result we now have the Dome - the strange concrete arch on the main road was the original entrance to the station I believe. The Dome would not have been built if the station hadn't been there.
Another long PDF to read?

I thought today I was just going to read the 192 page PDF of the CrossRail Two consultation results.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/crossrail_2_Consultation_Report.pdf
Another unauthenticated and potentially apocryphal anecdote: the reason North Greenwich has three platforms is that it was built with passive provision for a branch line to Thamesmead.










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