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wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk (Walter Briscoe) wrote:

> 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
> 
> 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.

The route was zapped long before the West Cross Route link road to
Westway was built but its construction did deliver the coup de grace if
anyone might have been thinking of reinstating the Latimer Road link.

-- 
Colin Rosenstiel