Alternative universe Tube Map based on proposals from 1946

Cracking, alicarr!

Let us know when the screensaver version is ready-would like this on my desktop, too!

Regarding the Northern City Line proposal, this is the passage in the 1946 report I'm working from:

"Route 1: Would proceed from Tower Bridge Road under the river to Fenchurch Street and Moorgate, where it would be linked with the L.P.T.B. Northern-City line, the latter being connected at its Finsbury Park terminus with the L.N.E.R. suburban system. It is considered that the Alexandra Palace and Enfield Town branches of the L.N.E.R. might appropriately be connected with the new railway at Finsbury Park, but it must be pointed out that such a connection would involve some alteration of the scheme for dealing with the projection of the Northern-City line trains to Alexandra Palace under the New Works Programme, 1935/40."

In a later table listing termini for each route, the only northern termini listed for Route 1 are "Alexandra Palace and
Enfield Town, L.N.E.R."

The proposals in the thread you linked, which include the Olympia - Yeading tube line, seem to come from later. I worked off these 1946 proposals because it was easy to get hold of the text in detail. Perhaps if I have more time I'll do a different tube map for the 1949 proposals, and perhaps another one for the 1965 proposals as well.

I didn't know about the plans for services to Bushey Heath - I'll update the map to reflect that

Love this, it's very interesting to look and consider what the tube might have been like if those planned lines/stations had been built. One thing - the planned Bakerloo line Camberwell extension is not on it.

The Camberwell proposal surfaced first in 1912/13.

Then in 1926 & 1933 as well!!

However, in the context of your splendid map, the proposal is irrelevant, because it next resurfaces in 1949.

The original proposals all mooted an intermediate station at Wandsworth Road and a terminus at Denmark Hill--from your point of view, as it were, that changed to a possible intermediate station at Albany Road & now a terminus at Camberwell Green respectively from 1949, if that helps with the next map!

Says he, born & bred in SE5

I'll definitely put the 1949/1965 maps on my list of future projects. I'm considering making a blog where I could put everything up, but I always get worried that no one will ever want to read it.

Do you (or anyone) know where I can access the full text of the plans from 1949 or 1965 (or indeed any other fun ones that I could do)? A nice advantage of the 1946 plans was the text is freely available, in full online which helps a lot with understanding the details and the historical background.

Well, you can either track a copy down as I did (£85!) of the bound plans with maps.

Or, if it's just the text from the schedule to the report, the report itself and its' recommendations & finally the appendices, including London population distribution, we are talking 30 pages which I will willingly photocopy & send you via email or a series thereof, message me if you want to & I'll get something started.

You should start a blog! Plenty of people would want to read it. All us tube enthusiasts would   Just try and make people aware of it. Are you on Twitter by any chance? As for the 1949 or 1965 plans, I wouldn't know where you could easily find them online, but good luck with your search.

sorry ...what am I doing wrong that's stopping me from zooming in on the map?

oh, the direct link is perfect - cheers mate