West Hampstead Interchange - Proposal

Proposal

Chiltern Railways suggested building platforms for their line, and possibly for the Metropolitan line, and moving the Thameslink and North London Line stations to the east side of West End Lane to provide a combined station there. West End Lane would become "a tree-lined boulevard". The plans were put on hold in 2007 due to uncertainty over the North London Line rail franchise.

In 2008, the London Group of the Campaign for Better Transport published a proposal for a North and West London Light railway, sharing the Dudding Hill Line freight corridor, and taking over one or both of the two unused freight lines which run through West Hampstead Thameslink station.

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