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 Finsbury Circus and High Beech? The same with a later additional line in the 1899 LW&EFR proposal to link up with the Chingford Branch Line presumably nearer to Clapton alongside the authorized lines.
2 -A curious aspect about the route would have to be it traveling parallel to Lea Bridge Road if not possibly stopping at Lea Bridge itself before continuing towards High Beech with branches running onto the then Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway roughly at Leyton Midland Road either north to Walthamstow Queen’s Road or south to Leytonstone High Road (formerly Leyton, Walthamstow and Leytonstone respectively).
3 - On the initial plans for railways connecting the City to the north-east of London. Do any additional details exist on the 1891 London, Tottenham & Epping Railway scheme for a railway from Whitecross Street to Waltham Abbey via Tottenham and Walthamstow regarding the proposed route?
Specifically was Whitecross Street itself actually envisaged as a terminus or did the planners practically speaking likely have somewhere nearer to Aldersgate Street (now Barbican), Moorgate or Farringdon in mind?
4 - Returning back to the LW&EFR, with elements of the route as such from Spring Lane / Big Hill to the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway (later Gospel Oak – Barking Line) via Lea Bridge in mind. Were there any other historical railway schemes in the area that with the benefit of hindsight would have potentially provided more orbital options from East to North London beyond the Gospel Oak to Barking and North London Lines?
Say some iteration of the aforementioned scheme from Spring Lane / Big Hill to Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway towards Barking via Lea Bridge (with an optional branch onto the GER prior to Snaresbrook from Leyton Midland Road), yet now beginning from somewhere around Junction Road (up to as far back as West Hampstead) to Spring Lane / Big Hill via Finsbury Park or some other scheme along similar lines?
1 - Does any information exist as to what planned stations were envisaged between Finsbury Circus and High Beech? The same with a later additional line in the 1899 LW&EFR proposal to link up with the Chingford Branch Line presumably nearer to Clapton alongside the authorized lines.
2 -A curious aspect about the route would have to be it traveling parallel to Lea Bridge Road if not possibly stopping at Lea Bridge itself before continuing towards High Beech with branches running onto the then Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway roughly at Leyton Midland Road either north to Walthamstow Queen’s Road or south to Leytonstone High Road (formerly Leyton, Walthamstow and Leytonstone respectively).
3 - On the initial plans for railways connecting the City to the north-east of London. Do any additional details exist on the 1891 London, Tottenham & Epping Railway scheme for a railway from Whitecross Street to Waltham Abbey via Tottenham and Walthamstow regarding the proposed route?
Specifically was Whitecross Street itself actually envisaged as a terminus or did the planners practically speaking likely have somewhere nearer to Aldersgate Street (now Barbican), Moorgate or Farringdon in mind?
4 - Returning back to the LW&EFR, with elements of the route as such from Spring Lane / Big Hill to the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway (later Gospel Oak – Barking Line) via Lea Bridge in mind. Were there any other historical railway schemes in the area that with the benefit of hindsight would have potentially provided more orbital options from East to North London beyond the Gospel Oak to Barking and North London Lines?
Say some iteration of the aforementioned scheme from Spring Lane / Big Hill to Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway towards Barking via Lea Bridge (with an optional branch onto the GER prior to Snaresbrook from Leyton Midland Road), yet now beginning from somewhere around Junction Road (up to as far back as West Hampstead) to Spring Lane / Big Hill via Finsbury Park or some other scheme along similar lines?
