Report on the Plans of the Various Railways before the Examiners of the House of Commons, 1864, so far as relates to the Parish of Kensington

by James Broadbridge

Railway No. 3 on plan.

A Line in connection with Line No. 1, commencing on the south side of the Alma Road, crossing the West London Extension Railway into the Parish of Fulham.

Note.—The Metropolitan Railway, the Metropolitan District Railways, and the Charing Cross Western Railway are to be executed principally as open cuttings, in many cases bisecting roads, or traversing them, but in most cases interfering with the sewers.

Metropolitan Grand Union Railway.

Railway No. 1 on plan.

A railway commencing by a junction with the West London Railway in the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, and terminating by a junction with the London and Blackwall Railway.

Commencing in this Parish on the West London Railway, north of the Kensington Station, and diverges southward into the Parish of Hammersmith, passing through the Hammersmith Road at the rear of Portland Place, returning into this Parish by Shaftesbury Terrace, Warwick Road, through Land to Earl’s Court Road, Land at the rear of St. Philip’s Church, Wright’s Lane, south of Redfield Lane, to Gloucester Road, along by Gloucester Grove at the north of Old Brompton Road, through Bute Street, Old Brompton Road, Pelham Road, Fulham Road, into the Parish of Chelsea by Marlborough Road.

This Line is proposed to be executed as an open cutting, varying in depth from 21 to 30 feet, with 218 yards of tunnel 18 feet 6 inches high, between Earl’s Court and Wright’s Lane, and tunnel again 22 feet 6 inches high from Old Brompton Road, along Pelham road to Fulham Road, levels of roads unaltered, interruption of sewers to be provided for.