Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONDON (WEST) RAILWAY EXTENSION WORKS

LONDON (WEST) RAILWAY EXTENSION WORKS, a series of works in the western suburbs of the metropolis; based on the purchase and absorption of the West London railway. It was authorized in 1859, and completed in 1863; and it belongs, in common to the Northwestern, the Great Western, the Southwestern, and the Brighton and South Coast companies. It comprises, a main line railway, fully 4 miles long, from a junction with the West London at Kensington, across the Thames on a six-arched bridge, to a junction with the Victoria Station and Pimlico line at Battersea; two branches, respectiVely 63 and 35 chains long, connecting the main line with the West End of London and Crystal Palace near the Clapham station, and with the Southwestern near the junction of its Richmond branch with its main line; a branch from Battersea to the Southwestern; a branch, 27 chains long, from the main line near the basin of the Imperial Gas company to the Thames near the mouth of the Kensington canal; a dock in the parish of Fulham; and a division of part of the Kensington canal, with discontinuance of the part N of King's-road, Chelsea. A station for it at West Brompton was opened in Oct. 1866.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a series of works"   (ADL Feature Type: "buildings")
Administrative units: London AncC

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