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Post by rebeltc130 on Jan 11, 2020 1:05:10 GMT
On page 19 in Tony Beard’s A Tube Beyond Edgware book, it says a Chartered Surveyor by the name of Alan Daly saw Frank Pick on 24th October 1933 with a proposal for the extension of the Edgware line to Bullbaiters Farm in Borehamwood.
It is known whereabouts Bullbaiters Farm is located today? Only know it was to diverge from the proposed route from Edgware to Bushey at Elstree (Brockley Hill?) station and that the LPTB began to refer to the terminus as Borehamwood East roughly east of Bullhead Road?
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Post by zbang on Jan 11, 2020 3:45:13 GMT
There's an interesting map the area at www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2010/ans10-039-bull-baiters-farm.htm. Apparently, Bullbaiters Farm was originally known as Bullbeggars. Using the map mentioned above, an OS map from the 1890s, and the current one, it looks like Bullbaiters Farm was to the east of Maxwell Park along Bullhead road, roughly at the same latitude as the Tesco petrol station. I'm prepared to be off a bit in any direction. (There went an interesting half an hour  .) |
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Post by oe on Jan 11, 2020 6:45:09 GMT
It would have been interesting to see how and where the extension would have crossed the main line. There would need to have been one major tunnel.
Also might there have been an intermediate Station around Barnet Lane?
Perhaps entering the realms of Fripas?!
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Post by rebeltc130 on Jan 12, 2020 3:58:29 GMT
There's an interesting map the area at www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2010/ans10-039-bull-baiters-farm.htm. Apparently, Bullbaiters Farm was originally known as Bullbeggars. Using the map mentioned above, an OS map from the 1890s, and the current one, it looks like Bullbaiters Farm was to the east of Maxwell Park along Bullhead road, roughly at the same latitude as the Tesco petrol station. I'm prepared to be off a bit in any direction. (There went an interesting half an hour .) Thanks for taking the time to research Bullbaiters Farm, it is one of a few historical rail themed locations that search engines appear to find nothing on (the W&ER's Caldecott Hill is one, the proposed site for Old Bushey is another, while assuming Heathbourne Road was to be sited nearer to the later Northern Height's stop at Aldenham / Bushey Heath). Will hazard a guess and say the proposed location was roughly south of the NHSBT Borehamwood and north of Kenilworth Drive as well as east of Bullhead Road and west of Manor Way. It would have been interesting to see how and where the extension would have crossed the main line. There would need to have been one major tunnel. Also might there have been an intermediate Station around Barnet Lane? Perhaps entering the realms of Fripas?! From a glance at the rough map on page 20 of Tony Beard's book, it would be appear the proposed extension would have crossed much further south than around Barnet Lane, would say slightly northeast of Broadfields Primary School across the mainline through Scratchwood Open Space before heading to Borehamwood East west of Froghall Cottages. Whether there would be scope for an eventual intermediate station east of Broadfields Estate that interchanges with the mainline is another matter altogether. |
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