The Route
From north to south, former and current details including links with all the constituent railways:
- Willesden Junction
WLL trains use the high level station on the North London Line. There is interchange with the Bakerloo Line and Watford DC Line - West London Junction
The line separates from the North London Line - Mitre Bridge Junction
Connection to the West Coast Main Line. Installed to allow switching of services from the former Southern Railway to gain access to the West Coast Main Line, and vice versa for the London Midland and Scottish Railway which in summer would send sleeper services from as far north as Glasgow to the South Coast. Through trains operating in the steam railway era would swap locomotives here to allow through passage. From the 1920s there was a United Dairies depot on the site of a former dairy farm here, which up until the late 1970s had regular milk train deliveries. Today used by Southern services to Milton Keynes Central - North Pole Junction
End-on junction; connection to former Eurostar North Pole depot, which is parallel to the GWR main line. The WLJR proper starts here. A limited CrossCountry service between Reading and Brighton used the unelectrified connection with the Great Western Main Line until December 2008 - St. Quintin Park and Wormwood Scrubs (closed)
- Westway ----AC/DC changeover point
Electric trains stop between stations to switch power supply: 25kV AC overhead to the north, 750V DC third-rail to the south - Shepherd's Bush opened September 2008 on the site of the former Uxbridge Road station. Interchange with Central line
- Kensington (Olympia) (formerly "Addison Road")
Interchange with the District line - West London Extension Junction
End-on junction connecting the two parts of the Line; here also were extensive goods yards owned by LNWR and GWR - West Brompton
Interchange with District line - Chelsea & Fulham (closed)
Here was a goods line to Chelsea Basin - Imperial Wharf opened 2009
- Battersea Railway Bridge/Cremorne Bridge
Here the Line crosses the River Thames - Battersea (closed)
- Latchmere Junctions
With connections to the L&SWR and LB&SCR - Clapham Junction
Interchange with other National Rail lines and the future western extension of the East London Line
The West Cross Route, one side of the Ringway 1 inner ring road, would have paralleled the West London Line.
Read more about this topic: West London Line
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