Uxbridge Road

Sorry, no photos but it was closed 19.10.40 because of bomb damage, as was the West London Line's Willesden Junction - Earl's Court service. L&NWR 'Oerlikon' and 'Siemens' stock never ventured onto the District again.

As an aside, because the L&NWR's stock wasn't ready when the Willesden - Earl's Court route was electrified in 1914, the District Railway operated the service for a month or two (or three?) with 'B' Stock.

This site: www.disused-stations.org.uk/ has pictures and information. My guess would be all traces of the station and link from Latimer Road have been obliterated by the motorway stub there.

Not completely - there is some evidence of the connection at Latimer Road and one of the track circuits is still present * - admittedly having been failing open circuit continuously for the past fifty years, but still powered up!

* - Until I get the obviously redundant wires removed as part of the Wood Lane signalling works.

Too late now,I suppose,but why not name Shepherd's Bush Met (H&C) as Uxbridge Road,perhaps adding "for Loftus Rd QPR"?This would be geographically accurate,at least,as well as bringing back a much-loved name to the Underground..
And in restoration of an earlier service,running LO trains from Willesden direction into Earl's Court (Middle Circle,anyone?)though,operationally it might be easier to reverse at High St. Ken.

The problem with that name is Uxbridge Road could mean anywhere from there to Hayes and beyond to your average idiot. Also the nearest stations to Loftus Road are now Wood Lane and White City Would a service to Clapham Junction from Earl's Court be possible and has one ever run?

As for the M41/A3220 West Cross Route, I know that it was built along the existing WLL to ahem minimise the impact of the motorway but not 100% sure whether any of the line was changed at all, certainly looks like it was though.

I'd not heard of the "District branch to Clapham Jct" plan,and am puzzled as to how the connection would be made.....West Brompton? The Ringrail scheme was very ambitious and intriguing,covering many options,but was gradually watered down out of existence.....unless the current Overground plans represent its final,affordable incarnation.
Over the last ten years I have heard of campaigns to (re-)open stations at Wormwood Scrubs (North Pole),Chelsea and Fulham (both in conjunction with Chelsea FC,and as a station between King's and Fulham Rds with entrances on both,my favourite) and somewhere in Battersea (probably on Battersea Pk Rd) and,of course Shepherd's Bush (Uxbridge Rd!).
I know that the first couldn't get any funding,nor the third,the fourth is eventually open (hurrah!) and the Chelsea scheme was sunk by Railtrack (or whatever they were then called) not just for reasons of line capacity which it used to object to all the others,nor of funding (Chelsea FC offered to PAY FOR EVERYTHING in their scheme,but because (get this) TOO MANY PEOPLE WOULD USE IT!! (On match days,to be fair)
For me ,though,the mst glaring missing station in the whole of London,which would be costly to fix but must be included at the earliest planning stage,is a Central Brixton station on the SLL soon to be stage 2 of the ELLX.

It's the "Camden Rd De-scoping" argument,isn't it?
If serving THE most important traffic interchange and destination in the whole of South London is not factored into the initial costings and done properly,first time,during the period when the line is being converted in any case,there will be constant calls for it to be done once people see brand-new LO trains sailing 30' over Brixton High Road,50yds from the door of Brixton tube (said to be the busiest outside Central London) WITHOUT STOPPING!
Only,then,in order to put a station in,they will have to re-close the line at least occasionally,to put the stop in.
It represents a major selling point for the scheme.Why should Lambeth care about LO otherwise? Clapham and Wandsworth Rd aren't money-spinners,I suspect.
And in fact,for the reasons given above,there IS an engineering reason for including it in the initial scheme,and also it may well attract infrastructure grants to the project.
I understand that it is a tricky site,and any solution will be costly,but say it DOES cost tens of millions,it's always better to get it right first time round,and then there will be a top-class urban railway taking lots of people to useful places.
Unlike,say,North Greenwich.....now how much did THAT cost??

PS:I live in North London!!

Isn't there a little bit of rejigging needed around the immediate approach to Clapham Junction? Also, what's the latest about the reinstatement of platform 1 at CJ - I read somewhere that it was off as the work was considered to be too pricey and apparently both the WLL and ELLX services can be accommodated on the single platform (sounds like a recipe for disaster to me!). Is this just a nonsense rumour, or a cost-cutting bid to ensure the project gets the go-ahead?



Agree completely. At the moment the only game in town is that of actually getting ELLX phase 2 committed to. Battles about expensive new stations are strictly for another day.