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

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.

Railway No. 3 on plan.

Commences by a junction with Line No. 1, in Pelham Street, and proceeds northerly through Alfred Place, West, Old Brompton Road, by Thurlow Place, Cromwell Road, and traversing Exhibition Road, and thence to a junction with the Metropolitan Railway, Paddington.

This portion of railway is proposed to be executed as a tunnel.

Road levels unaltered; interruption of sewer to be provided for.

South Kensington, New Road, Road from Cadogan Place to South Kensington.

For making a street or road commencing in the Parish of St. Luke’s, Chelsea, at the West End of Pont Street, crossing Cadogan Place and Sloane Street, through Land between Hans Place and the Pavilion, to and through Walton Street into the Parish of Kensington, at the south end of Ovington Square, through Yeoman’s Row, Michael’s Grove, Michael’s Place, York Cottages, into Brompton Road, opposite Kensington Museum.

The Plan shews a new road of a length in this Parish of 1,360 feet, being from Brompton Road to the Parish Boundary by Ovington Square, of an average width of 100 feet; the road to be finished at the levels of the existing roads, excepting at the junction of Michael’s Grove with Brompton Crescent, where it is proposed to raise the road 2′3″.