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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2005 22:16:10 GMT
Back in the days when the LMSR was running their Oerlikon DC service from Willesden Junction to Earls Court via Addison Road, where did they reverse upon arriving at Earls Court?
For that matter, how did they get onto the DR in the first place?
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Post by Hutch on Sept 15, 2005 14:18:45 GMT
Probably Addison Road (Kensington Olympia) via the West London Line I would think. Wasn’t this the route of the Outer Circle?
I also thought that for a short time the LNWR ran a service from the North London Railway via South Acton and Turnham Green.
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Post by piccadillypilot on Sept 15, 2005 15:49:56 GMT
Probably Addison Road (Kensington Olympia) via the West London Line I would think. Wasn’t this the route of the Outer Circle? That was the Middle Circle, which operated as a 30 minute service from 1 August 1872 between Moorgate and Mansion House. On 5 November 1906 electric traction displaced steam which had been cut back to Earl's Court on 1 July 1900 and to Addison Road (now Olympia) Operated by the LNWR from September 1867 initially to Kensington and then to Victoria (LBSCR). From 1 February 1872 the service was diverted to Mansion House and became the Outer Circle. The outer Circle was also curtailed to Earls Court from 1 January 1909 to be replaced by a Willesden - Earl's Court service in 1912. The link from the H&C line at Latimer Road to the WLR was closed in 1947. The existing Circle Line was at the time known as the Inner Circle. Info from "London Railway History", H.P. White, David & Charles, 1971. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2005 22:36:09 GMT
The West London Line has a horribly complicated history. Basically it conected Willesden Junction with Clapham Junction via Ken Olympia, and was a very busy north-south link, used more by freight than passenger. There was a link with the H&C at Ladbroke Grove as well as the surviving link with the District at Earls Court.
The Met/LT ran services off the H&C to Olympia until the link was cut by a bomb during WW2.
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Post by russe on Sept 16, 2005 0:08:27 GMT
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