Emlyn Road or Stamford Gardens was an authorised underground railway station planned by the
Central London Railway
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(CLR) but never built. It was to be located near Stamford Brook Common at the junction of Emlyn Road, Stamford Brook Road, Bath Road and Prebend Gardens in
Chiswick, in west
London
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.
Plan
The station was to have been built on the CLR's planned underground extension from
Shepherd's Bush to
Gunnersbury
Gunnersbury is an area of West London, England.
Toponymy
The name "Gunnersbury" means "Manor house of a woman called Gunnhildr", and is from an old Scandinavian personal name + Middle English -''bury'', manor or manor house.
Development
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proposed to parliament in November 1912. The extension was to continue on the
London and South Western Railway
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(L&SWR) surface tracks to
Richmond already used by the
District Railway (DR). The station would have been between
Turnham Green
Turnham Green is a public park on Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London, and the neighbourhood and conservation area around it; historically, it was one of the four medieval villages in the Chiswick area, the others being Old Chiswick, Little S ...
to the west and
Rylett Road to the east.
The CLR received permission for the extension on 1913 in the ''Central London Railway Act, 1913''.
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World War I prevented the works from commencing and the permission expired. In 1919, the CLR revived the plan for an extension to Richmond using a different route via the existing L&SWR/DR tracks to the south. Parliamentary approval for the new route was received in 1920, but again the works were not carried out.
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