The Anonymous Widower

Could A Heathrow And City Line Be Created?

In The New Step-Free Entrance At Euston Square Station, the following comment was added by Martin.

As said cutting the two new pedestrian tunnels from the existing platforms outside the existing brickwork MAY be less demanding than extending the platform tunnel, however I feel that extending the rail platforms would be a more future proof solution as done on the Elizabeth Line, in addition to reducing walking time to the Main Line with Stuff. I would like to see this as a precursor to extending platforms 5 & 6 at Baker Street west to a new entrance at Glentworth Street. With other improvements along the line over time. Enabling a new “Heathrow & City Line” connection utilising the Elizabeth Line from a rebuilt platform at Westbourne Grove.

I will now look at Martin’s various suggestions.

A Connection Between Elizabeth Line And the Hammersmith & City Line At Westbourne Park Station

The last sentence of the comment is.

Enabling a new “Heathrow & City Line” connection utilising the Elizabeth Line from a rebuilt platform at Westbourne Grove.

Note.

  1. Martin means Westbourne Park not Westbourne Grove.

This OpenRailwayMap shows the lines through Westbourne Park station.

Note.

  1. The blue tracks are the Hammersmith & City Line.
  2. The blue arrow on the Hammersmith & City Line indicates Westbourne Park station.
  3. The orange tracks are the four tracks of the Great Western Main Line and the two tracks of the Elizabeth Line.
  4. To the East of this map, the Hammersmith & City Line crosses under the other tracks, so it can access platforms on the North side of Paddington station.

This second OpenRailwayMap is an enlargement of the lines through Westbourne Park station.

Note.

  1. As before the blue tracks and blue arrow indicate the Hammersmith & City Line and Westbourne Park station.
  2. Orange Lines 1 to 4, which are numbered from the South, are the four lines of the Great Western Main Line.
  3. The other three orange tracks are labelled Line 5, Westbound and Eastbound and handle GWR local services and the Elizabeth Line.
  4. I would assume that Eastbound and Westbound Elizabeth Line services use the appropriately named track.

This Google Map shows Westbourne  Park station, Great Western Road, the rail tracks and the nearby Westbourne Park bus garage.

Note.

  1. The London Underground roundel indicates Westbourne  Park station.
  2. The two Hammersmith & City Line platforms stretch to the West of the station entrance.
  3. Westbourne Park bus garage lies to the North of the Great Western Main Line and Elizabeth Line tracks.
  4. There are around fifty white-roofed buses parked on the roof of the bus garage.
  5. The Eastbound Elizabeth Line track runs along the South side of the bus garage.

Looking at the last two maps, I suspect that a two platform station serving the two Elizabeth line tracks under and to the East of Great Western Road.

  1. It would be connected to the Hammersmith & City Line by a walkway on the Western side of the Great Western Road.
  2. There would be step-free access to the Hammersmith & City and Elizabeth Lines.

I took these pictures from the platforms at the current Westbourne Park station and as I walked to and from Westbourne Park bus garage.

Note.

  1. The bus garage is recent and was built as part of the Elizabeth Line construction.
  2. There are two Westbourne Park station  buildings.
  3. One building serves the Hammersmith & City Line and the other could have served the tracks now used by the Elizabeth Line.
  4. The Westbourne Park station  buildings need a lot of restoration.
  5. Could a bus interchange be developed?

I believe that a station that connected the Hammersmith & City and Elizabeth Lines could be built.

 

January 21, 2024 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , , , | Leave a comment