In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a 
connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and 
Uxbridge Road. Addison Road is now known as Kensington Olympia. Uxbridge 
Road has gone. When and why? Between 1946 and 1949 according to 
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1946.html> and 
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html>. I can 
find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at 
<www.davros.org/rail/culg/>. [It will be better when he completes the 
track diagrams. I am uncomfortable with his algebraic descriptions. I 
appreciate it is a hobby and he has a day job. ;)]
-- 
Walter Briscoe

On Jun 25, 6:13 pm, Walter Briscoe 
wrote:
> In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a
> connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and
> Uxbridge Road. Addison Road is now known as Kensington Olympia. Uxbridge
> Road has gone. When and why? Between 1946 and 1949 according to
> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1946.html> and
> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html>. I can
> find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at
> <www.davros.org/rail/culg/>. [It will be better when he completes the
> track diagrams. I am uncomfortable with his algebraic descriptions. I
> appreciate it is a hobby and he has a day job. ;)]

There is a map here, which may explain the situation

http://tinyurl.com/ypnw4z

--
Abi

Abigail Brady wrote:
> On Jun 25, 6:13 pm, Walter Briscoe 
> wrote:
>> In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a
>> connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and
>> Uxbridge Road. Addison Road is now known as Kensington Olympia.
>> Uxbridge Road has gone. When and why? Between 1946 and 1949
>> according to
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1946.html> and
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html>. I
>> can find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at
>> <www.davros.org/rail/culg/>. [It will be better when he completes
>> the track diagrams. I am uncomfortable with his algebraic
>> descriptions. I appreciate it is a hobby and he has a day job. ;)]
>
> There is a map here, which may explain the situation
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypnw4z

That's a good map. The link from the West London Line to Latimer Road was 
destroyed by bombing in 1940, and was never reopened.  I note that Uxbridge 
Road was closed at the same time, presumably because the only service it had 
was via Latimer Road.  (Services to Willesden Junction had ceased in 1939 at 
the start of WW2.)  The tube map continued to show the Latimer Road 
connection until (I think) 1947, when the 'temporary' closure became 
permanent.
-- 
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Abigail Brady wrote:
>
> There is a map here, which may explain the situation
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypnw4z

I'm surprised that the Wood Lane platform with the line cutting therethrough 
has no footnote!

In message 
 of 
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:08:34 in uk.transport.london, Abigail Brady 
 writes
>On Jun 25, 6:13 pm, Walter Briscoe 
>wrote:
>> In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a
>> connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and
>> Uxbridge Road. Addison Road is now known as Kensington Olympia. Uxbridge
>> Road has gone. When and why? Between 1946 and 1949 according to
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1946.html> and
>> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1949.html>. I can
>> find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at
>> <www.davros.org/rail/culg/>. [It will be better when he completes the
>> track diagrams. I am uncomfortable with his algebraic descriptions. I
>> appreciate it is a hobby and he has a day job. ;)]
>
>There is a map here, which may explain the situation
>
>http://tinyurl.com/ypnw4z
>
>--
>Abi

That diagram is very helpful. Reference to a map suggests the route 
would have been zapped by Westway construction. I can't imagine the 
route can ever have been very busy.
-- 
Walter Briscoe

In message , Walter Briscoe 
 writes

>That diagram is very helpful. Reference to a map suggests the route 
>would have been zapped by Westway construction.

The entire line was south of Westway. Had it survived, it would have 
crossed what was then the short motorway from Westway to the Shepherd's 
roundabout, but the road could easily have been built beneath the line 
had it still been in use. Of course, it wasn't and so the embankment 
down to the West London line was simply removed.

>I can't imagine the route can ever have been very busy.

Trains were every 20 minutes each way (weekdays only) in 1929, with 
additional services when there was an exhibition at Olympia. The service 
was Edgware Road - Kensington Olympia (then called Kensington, Addison 
Road).
-- 
Paul Terry

In article <OZN+T$aNznYIFwKO@freenetname.co.uk>, Walter Briscoe 
 writes
>In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a 
>connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and 
>Uxbridge Road.
[...]
>I can find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at 
><www.davros.org/rail/culg/>.

It's in the Hammersmith & City Line file, plus there's some pre-1906 
stuff in the Circle Line file (look for "Middle Circle").

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In message  of Tue, 8 Jul 2008 
12:54:58 in uk.transport.london, Clive D. W. Feather 
 writes
>In article <OZN+T$aNznYIFwKO@freenetname.co.uk>, Walter Briscoe 
> writes
>>In  recent thread, there is a reference to the 1941 tube map at
>><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1941.html> to a 
>>connection from Earl's Court to Latimer Road via Addison Road and 
>>Uxbridge Road.
>[...]
>>I can find no relevant words in Clive Feather's wonderful work at 
>><www.davros.org/rail/culg/>.
>
>It's in the Hammersmith & City Line file, plus there's some pre-1906 
>stuff in the Circle Line file (look for "Middle Circle").
>

Thanks for that. I think I was looking for (and failed to find) "Addison 
Road" which is now known as Kensington Olympia.
As one heads west towards Hammersmith from Latimer Road, what I take to 
be the stump of the connection to Uxbridge Road, Addison Road, and Earls 
Court can be seen on the left just outside Latimer Road.
-- 
Walter Briscoe