Central Line alongside the M11 link road

[90sWereBetter]

I spent a fair amount of time in Leytonstone and Leyton over Friday and Saturday and having stumbled across the stub which is all that remains of the infamous Claremont Road, it got me thinking: did the construction of the M11 link road cause any changes to the Central Line alignment? I'm really struggling to visualise the area before the road was built.

I note that the map on Wikipedia suggests that two of the infamous protest sites (Claremont Road and Filebrook Road) actually crossed over the tube line. Presumably the line was always in that cutting?

 

[bramling]

I spent a fair amount of time in Leytonstone and Leyton over Friday and Saturday and having stumbled across the stub which is all that remains of the infamous Claremont Road, it got me thinking: did the construction of the M11 link road cause any changes to the Central Line alignment? I'm really struggling to visualise the area before the road was built.

I note that the map on Wikipedia suggests that two of the infamous protest sites (Claremont Road and Filebrook Road) actually crossed over the tube line. Presumably the line was always in that cutting?

The railway wasn't moved, although the link road did lead to the Whipps Cross Tunnel being heavily modified, and IIRC the loss of the eastern exit and footbridge at Leyton station was also indirectly related.