D/Z 346/3200/150
Plan of Horizontal Alignment, Alternative Route 'B': Scheme 4, Hackney - M11 Link Road, Temple Mills
| Date range | 1977 |
| Location | Essex Record Office (see all files stored here) |
| Catalogue | See entry |
Context
Along with the other files listed below, this item is a photocopy of a single plan sheet showing the layout of a section of one route proposal for the M11 Link Road, a trunk road scheme pursued in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a replacement for the cancelled M11 between Hackney and Woodford. The road was eventually built in further modified form as the A12 and opened in the 1990s.
This plan effectively mirrors the line of the A12 as built, on viaduct over the marshalling yards and with a junction at Temple Mills Road, though the road here has two lanes, not three. The viaduct requires three tracks to be permanently lifted, with new chords indiscriminately added diverting busy routes such as the Down Goods Main into sidings to get around the viaduct piers. Presumably BR had their head in their hands and may have had alternative suggestions, especially considering the viaduct spans have enough space to accommodate all the required tracks if a bit more realignment was done.
The Temple Mills junction is very squashed and lacks acceleration or deceleration lanes.
Links to other files
- D/Z 346/3200/144 Plan of horizontal alignment, Alternative Route 'B': Scheme 3, Hackney - M11 Link Road, Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/146 Plan of horizontal alignment, Alternative Route 'A', Hackney - M11 Link Road, Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/151 Key Plan, M11 Extension: Ruckholt Road Interchange, Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/154 Plan of Hackney - M11 Link Road: Interchange at Ruckholt Road: Scheme 'A', Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/155 Plan of horizontal alignment, Hackney - M11 Link Road: Alternative Route 'C', Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/156 Plan of horizontal alignment, Hackney - M11 Link Road: Alternative Route 'A', Temple Mills (1977)
- D/Z 346/3200/157 Plan of original horizontal alignment, Hackney - M11 Link Road, Temple Mills Marshalling Yard (1977)
People with camera copies
Chris Marshall has a complete copy.
