Extension to Camberwell Green

From what I've read. they might have done something at the end of the Elephant and Castle sidings to see how they could be extended into the running lines to Camberwell, but I don't think much else was done.

I have read (I think on this Board) that new sidings were built at Elephant.
The original ones pointed toward Bricklayers' Arms.
The new,less cramped ones were built on the line of the Camberwell Extension.
It was conjectured that a pilot tunnel was built at least part of the way,with a shaft at the site of the intermediate station.The subsequent use of this conjectured tunnel has been the subject of wild speculation....
I always thought the intermediate station was to be called WALWORTH Gate,and somewhere I have a map with that name marked.

No, absolutely Camberwell Green EDIT: Gate (oops); you can't see any evidence of the indian ink being scraped off the linen - ie the original plan has not been renamed.

What date was that map, slugabed, please?

The sidings were indeed re-aligned in preparation for Camberwell, the originals were aligned beneath New Kent Road and were replaced by longer ones beneath Walworth Road.

I believe the empty original sidings tunnels remain, no doubt accessed by an inconspicuous looking bolthole somewhere off the southbound new siding.

The plans show nothing continuing beyond the end of the present sidings, the only features of note are a cable shaft leading up to Elephant & Castle Substation, and a vent/construction shaft leading up to the surface off the southbound siding.

A pal of mine who was a driver. but has since retired, went exploring down the tunnels at the Elephant many years ago. He thought that he might end up at Camberwell and prove that the borings had gone that far. However instead he found the plug and evidence that the tunnels don't go much further therefore. I am not sure whether my friend advised me that the plug was a bricked-up wal or I read it online. I also seem to recall that someone had been down there and had found a 'hole' in the wall (in the SB?) that could be peered-through and this confirmed the very end of the tunnels.

I do wonder whether the then LTE acquired properties in connection with the stations etc. and whether these were subsequently disposed-of or still form part of the estate?

I believe BAET has a photo of the cast-iron plug at the far end of one of the sidings in one of his photo albums.