Castlenau

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Castlenau is a peninsular area of London, England to the south of the Thames, opposite Chiswick and Hammersmith. To be more precise, it is on the Surrey side of the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race course.

[edit] Castlenau and the Underground

In 1902 a committee of the House of Lords considered two schemes relating to the possible extension of the London Underground railway that would have involved new lines beginning at Castlenau. In the end, neither was built.

One, submitted by London United Electric Railway, would have been a discrete branch from Hammersmith, linked to a proposed line from Clapham Junction to Marble Arch.

The other was the Charing Cross, Hammersmith & District Railway that would have run from Castelnau to the Strand, via Hammersmith, Kensington and Piccadilly. Permission for the latter was refused, though elements of it were realised in the Piccadilly line (1906). The LUER withdrew its proposal for the Castlenau branch in the course of negotiations aimed at rationalising a number of competing schemes. The Underground never reached Castlenau.