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The following link brings up ambitious plans to extend this GER line beyond Ongar to Dunmow or back to the GER mainline at Chelmsford that never saw the light of day. http://www.urban75.org/london/ongar.html While a map of the former scheme known as the Central Essex Light Railway is shown on...

With Alan A. Jackson’s London’s Termini in mind, it is known what other locations were considered for becoming a London Rail Termini (sans expansions of existing stations) apart from the Southwark Railway Terminus proposal as well as schemes to White City and Smithfield (the latter two being one...

Have been reading about the 1894-1899 proposals for the London, Walthamstow & Epping Forest Railway (LW&EFR) from South Place Finsbury Circus to High Beech though interested to know more about the following: 1 - Does any information exist as to what planned stations were envisaged between...

Interested to know what the original plans were for the Shenfield-Southend Line, as find it curious the terminus at Southend Victoria ended up not being far from the LTSR stop at Southend Central. Were there any proposals to directly link the Shenfield-South Line to the LTSR, possibly via a...

Have a 2 part historical query. 1) Even though Waterloo railway station in 1848 was opened some 16 years before Charing Cross railway station in 1864, were there any proposals for a curve to link the two stations at some point thereby allowing Charing Cross to travel both southeast via...

While the following link goes into some detail on the abandoned M&StJWR route from Swiss Cottage to Hampstead with a terminus at New End Square by Burgh House, am interested in looking at other derived proposals such as a few that included a continuation to Highgate and Alexandra Palace. In the...

Apologies if the following query has been asked previously, though interested to know what historical proposals there were for the City Widened Lines as far as eastward extensions beyond Moorgate were concerned? While it is probably the case of Moorgate being close enough to reach the City of...

On the subject of the Watford & Edgware Railway, it is known whereabouts the stops at Caldecott Hill, Old Bushey, and Heathbourne Road were to be located in relation to similar schemes up to the Northern Heights plan? Because the stops in question do not to be in order with Caldecott Hill and...

Interested to know what plans if any there were for the Stanmore Branch Line between Harrow & Wealdstone to Stanmore Village as far as northward extensions beyond Stanmore Village and any southeastward curve (towards Kenton) are concerned before it was finally closed in 1964 due to the Beeching...

What was the story behind a possible (pre-1900 or post-1900) Great Eastern Railway proposal for an unbuilt Eastward Curve at Stratford, which had it been built would have potentially linked Lea Bridge / Temple Mills to Maryland / Forest Gate? Am particularly interested in finding out what the...

Was wondering if someone could answer a few questions on the following article mentioning a proposed second terminus at King's Cross alongside Waterloo as the Channel Tunnel was being planned? 1) Is it known what the three other stations considered on shortlist for the second station were? 2)...

Once read of unrealised plans to further widen the GEML from Liverpool Street up to Globe Road (and possibly even as far as Grove Road, etc), though interested to know if similar plans once existed to widen the route to about 6 tracks between Stratford and Romford?

Is it known if there any unbuilt plans to extend the Addiscombe line to either East Croydon / South Croydon or to Selsdon / Sanderstead before it was finally closed?

Interested to know more about the proposed Express Railway routes for the unbuilt Thames Estuary Airport at Foulness / Maplin Sands? Heard a few of the proposed Express Railway routes were to begin from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, though particularly interested in finding out more...