please empty your brain below
In the 90s there was a proposal to run a St Pancras to Heathrow service, partly using this route.

Lorenzo | 03.04.20 - 8:19 a.m. | #

Great reading. Would be interesting to hear about other lines/ex-lines which used to carry passengers but no more.

One of the good things about my job is that I can work from home but one of the bad things is that I can work from home - I would love to instead be researching things such as this.

mushroomcounter | 03.04.20 - 9:02 a.m. | #

Thank you as ever - most interesting. The link to Dudding Hill Line is dead (I think due to a letter being left off the Wikipedia link).

dg writes: Fixed, thanks.

thebanburyman | Homepage | 03.04.20 - 9:36 a.m. | #

I haven’t commented on here for a while so just want to say how much I continue reading all your posts and appreciate all the effort you put into the blog.

Cjw714 | 03.04.20 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Thanks for yet another interesting and entertaining post, I think this'll keep me busy for a while given the fantastic number of useful links.
Keep up the good work, I really appreciate it as it keeps me occupied :)

Kevin Too | 03.04.20 - 11:20 a.m. | #

I find the Dudden -> Dudding transition interesting. Possibly parallel to Chipen Barnet -> Chipping Barnet (also Ongar etc). Many place names seem to have had variant spellings up until the 1800s, when they settled on one form.

Malcolm | 03.04.20 - 11:44 a.m. | #

Excellent series of blogs on Gladstone Park.

Twelve months ago I went to photograph some of the very rare surviving semaphore signals in London and had ample time between stone trains to see the Grade 2 listed former (security guarded) Dollis Hill Synagogue on the climb up Parkside and explore the site of Dollis Hill House. Well worth a visit... one day.

Ken | 03.04.20 - 11:50 a.m. | #

I've always been a bit dubious about the TfL plans for this line. Of course it will benefit a few people, but not enough to make it a particularly useful connection, it's a solution in search of a problem.

The fact that no passenger services have run along it for over a hundred years does rather highlight this.

dg writes: I recommend reading the business case.

Mikey C | 03.04.20 - 11:52 a.m. | #

I oppose Mikey's view. Kingsland viaduct had effectively been abandoned for seven decades before being reused for ELL extension, and see what they have now become.

Most significantly this service may relieve the Picc to some extent because many going for inner North London may choose the new service and change to NLL at the two Acton stations, thus avoiding Zone 1 while not being too much slower.

Patrickov | 03.04.20 - 1:13 p.m. | #

For a cab view of this line(both ways and other lines) try Freight Rambler on YouTube.

Mike | 03.04.20 - 3:49 p.m. | #

Hi Patrickov,

The Kingsland Viaduct was closed from 1986 to 2010 rather than for seven decades. See wikipedia.org/Kingsland_Viaduct.

Regards

zin92 | 03.04.20 - 4:35 p.m. | #

Of concern in South Acton is that these extra trains won't just make the level crossings in Bollo Lane busier, but that they'll close them altogether and sever a vital local road link.

ActonMan | 03.04.20 - 7:09 p.m. | #

zin92, yes, but the intermediate stations closed in 1940 so to the people in, say, Haggerston it is seven decades.

Patrickov | 04.04.20 - 3:15 a.m. | #

Even prior to coronavirus, the changing shape of shop retail trade was making the regeneration of Brent Cross look less likely, certainly making it difficult to fund the preparation works for linked housing projects. Even more so now, I can't see any of the 3 current anchor stores of Brent Cross making significant investments onsite/relocation in regeneration zone any time soon.

This will affect viability of Brent Cross Station and amount of passenger traffic on the line.

MilesT | 04.04.20 - 10:36 a.m. | #











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