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Chris5156: Added a ton of stuff

2021-09-04T11:05:23Z

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Chris5156: Add new numbers, more to come

2021-09-04T10:48:39Z

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Chris5156: Add 014

2020-06-14T11:07:53Z

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			\| '''Dagenham Corridor.''' This is the name of a corridor of open land between Romford and Dagenham which was considered for a secondary road in the 1960s. When that idea was abandoned, proposals were made for ways to use it as a linear park with new recreation facilities. Here are five aperture cards showing various ideas for the new open space.
			\| [[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]]
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	\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-135		\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-135

Chris5156: Fix typo

2020-03-19T19:00:32Z

Fix typo

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	\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-327		\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-327
	\| '''Miscellaneous GLC Plans.''' A real jumble of stuff, including N&E London Motor Network plans from GLC and DOE - these contain one of the few references to the Possible North London Radial; designs for a one-way ring road around Elephant and Castle; three designs for noise barriers to be installed on urban motorways; some proposals for changes to the Primary Road Network at Eltham; proposed signage scheme for urban motorways; some misfiled plan sheets and traffic flow diagrams that belong in 07-331.		\| '''Miscellaneous GLC Plans.''' A real jumble of stuff, including N&E London Motor Network plans from GLC and DOE - these contain one of the few references to the Possible North London Radial; designs for a one-way ring road around Elephant and Castle; three designs for noise barriers to be installed on urban motorways; some proposals for changes to the Primary Road Network at Eltham; proposed signage scheme for urban motorways; some misfiled plan sheets and traffic flow diagrams that belong in 07-331.
	\| ~~None known or~~ [[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]]		\| [[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]]
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	\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-331		\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-331

Chris5156 at 18:57, 19 March 2020

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 | GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-258
-| Proposals drawn up in 1980 by the GLC to provide a new left-in-left-out junction on the M41 to allow access to a development side on the east side of the motorway at Freston Road. Three options are presented which are almost identical, and the scheme never happened.
+| '''M41 Freston Road.''' Proposals drawn up in 1980 by the GLC to provide a new left-in-left-out junction on the M41 to allow access to a development side on the east side of the motorway at Freston Road. Three options are presented which are almost identical, and the scheme never happened.
 | None known
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 | GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-267
-| Alternative proposals for the A41/A406 Brent Cross Flyover, including one that appears to be a full cloverleaf almost entirely within the footprint of the existing junction, if you can imagine such a thing.
+| '''North Circular Road: A41.''' Alternative proposals for the A41/A406 Brent Cross Flyover, including one that appears to be a full cloverleaf almost entirely within the footprint of the existing junction, if you can imagine such a thing.
 | None known
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 | GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-300
-| The "Whitehall Traffic Scheme". It seems a firm of consultants was asked to come up with ways of alleviating the traffic problems at Parliament Square, and came up with no less than 26 options, lettered A-Z, all of which are wild flights of fancy involving roads under the Thames past Parliament and underground interchanges on the Embankment. My favourite was the one that shows a free-flowing interchange built entirely in tunnel below the Treasury. The 26 route options are on cards 4989 to 5025.
+| '''Whitehall Traffic Scheme.''' It seems a firm of consultants was asked to come up with ways of alleviating the traffic problems at Parliament Square, and came up with no less than 26 options, lettered A-Z, all of which are wild flights of fancy involving roads under the Thames past Parliament and underground interchanges on the Embankment. My favourite was the one that shows a free-flowing interchange built entirely in tunnel below the Treasury. The 26 route options are on cards 4989 to 5025.
 | None known
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 | GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-313
-| A scheme for a flyover or underpass at Golders Green Road, which is the set of traffic lights on the A406 North Circular immediately east of the A41 Brent Cross Flyover. There are about four different proposals here, circa 1979.
+| '''North Circular Road: Golders Green.''' A scheme for a flyover or underpass at Golders Green Road, which is the set of traffic lights on the A406 North Circular immediately east of the A41 Brent Cross Flyover. There are about four different proposals here, circa 1979.
 | None known
 |}
 ==People with camera copies of this file==
-[[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has photocopies of some items from this file.
+As listed above.

Chris5156: Made it delightful, which it is

2020-03-08T11:55:27Z

Made it delightful, which it is

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Chris5156: Tidy listing in preparation for many more items appearing soon. Ooooooh!

2020-03-08T11:54:38Z

Tidy listing in preparation for many more items appearing soon. Ooooooh!

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	==Context==		==Context==
	~~Some years ago~~, ~~I wrote:~~		Many trunk roads entered Greater London, until the detrunking of routes that coincided with the creation of Transport for London in 1999, and during the existence of the GLC the council would routinely be provided with copies of plans produced for trunk road schemes, either because the GLC acted as the Ministry's trunk road agent and would carry out or oversee the improvement scheme, or because they were consulted on schemes at the planning stage.
	~~::"A file~~ of road ~~scheme plans stored on aperture card~~, ~~which are in no particular order~~ and ~~seem to contain random extracts from much larger files. It is rather infuriating to find one fragment of a really interesting~~ scheme, ~~with no further information available~~ on it."

	~~There seems~~ to ~~have been~~ some ~~effort to organise this box of cards now~~, ~~because someone has clearly gone through all~~ the ~~drawing numbers marked on~~ the ~~cards and grouped them~~ by ~~scheme~~, ~~numbered each group~~, ~~and indexed them. Hoorah for that~~.		This file contains a huge number of aperture cards, each of which holds a photograph of a large plan sheet ("large" means comparable to A1 or A0 size) that is, in some way, loosely concerned with trunk roads in the GLC area. It also contains a fair few sheets produced by the GLC themselves, concerning Metropolitan Roads, that have ended up here by accident. The plan sheets themselves were, presumably, destroyed after being transferred to aperture card to save space.

	~~Unfortunately, in~~ the ~~same timeframe~~ they ~~have scrapped~~ a ~~load of old equipment~~, ~~meaning it~~'~~s no longer possible to see~~ the ~~contents~~ of ~~the~~ aperture cards on the ~~viewer~~ and it'~~s no longer possible to~~ get ~~paper copies or enlargements~~ of ~~them either~~.		Because of the way the LMA works - which we will describe here as "delightfully quirky" because they seem like genuinely nice people and it would be unkind to use a term like, I don't know, "wilfully obtuse" - the catalogue entry GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07 actually contains hundreds upon hundreds of individual items, each of which is a bundle of aperture cards, but those hundreds of items are not listed in the catalogue. They ''are'' listed, of course - LMA staff can call up a full and complete listing on their internal computer system - but they do not appear in the public catalogue. On the bright side, though, you can still order them if you know the item number, and since dozens of bundles will be held in the same box, once you order one bundle you'll get a large number of nearby ones as well.

	~~Among~~ the ~~many bundles of new bus lay-bys and signal timing diagrams are to be~~ found ~~the following gems~~.		As a service to humanity, here is an obviously incomplete listing of the individual items found within this collection so far.

	;GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-258		{\| class="wikitable"
	:Proposals drawn up in 1980 by the GLC to provide a new left-in-left-out junction on the M41 to allow access to a development side on the east side of the motorway at Freston Road. Three options are presented which are almost identical, and the scheme never happened.		! width="170"\| Item
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	:Alternative proposals for the A41/A406 Brent Cross Flyover, including one that appears to be a full cloverleaf almost entirely within the footprint of the existing junction, if you can imagine such a thing.		\|-
			\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-258
	;GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-300		\| Proposals drawn up in 1980 by the GLC to provide a new left-in-left-out junction on the M41 to allow access to a development side on the east side of the motorway at Freston Road. Three options are presented which are almost identical, and the scheme never happened.
	:The "Whitehall Traffic Scheme" ~~- a real jackpot find that I may return to if the LMA ever regain the ability to produce copies of these cards~~. It seems a firm of consultants was asked to come up with ways of alleviating the traffic problems at Parliament Square, and came up with no less than 26 options, lettered A-Z, all of which are wild flights of fancy involving roads under the Thames past Parliament and underground interchanges on the Embankment. My favourite was the one that shows a free-flowing interchange built entirely in tunnel below the Treasury. The 26 route options are on cards 4989 to 5025.		\| None known
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	;GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-313		\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-267
	:A scheme for a flyover or underpass at Golders Green Road, which is the set of traffic lights on the A406 North Circular immediately east of the A41 Brent Cross Flyover. There are about four different proposals here, circa 1979.		\| Alternative proposals for the A41/A406 Brent Cross Flyover, including one that appears to be a full cloverleaf almost entirely within the footprint of the existing junction, if you can imagine such a thing.
			\| None known
			\|-
			\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-300
			\| The "Whitehall Traffic Scheme". It seems a firm of consultants was asked to come up with ways of alleviating the traffic problems at Parliament Square, and came up with no less than 26 options, lettered A-Z, all of which are wild flights of fancy involving roads under the Thames past Parliament and underground interchanges on the Embankment. My favourite was the one that shows a free-flowing interchange built entirely in tunnel below the Treasury. The 26 route options are on cards 4989 to 5025.
			\| None known
			\|-
			\| GLC/TD/PM/CDO/07-313
			\| A scheme for a flyover or underpass at Golders Green Road, which is the set of traffic lights on the A406 North Circular immediately east of the A41 Brent Cross Flyover. There are about four different proposals here, circa 1979.
			\| None known
			\|}

	In 2005 I saw the same box and also found these things, though at the time there were no reference numbers for them so the best I can say is that they are somewhere in the box.		In 2005 I saw the same box and also found these things, though at the time there were no reference numbers for them so the best I can say is that they are somewhere in the box.
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	==People with camera copies of this file==		==People with camera copies of this file==
	~~None known.~~

	[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has photocopies of some items from this file.		[[User:Chris5156\|Chris Marshall]] has photocopies of some items from this file.

Chris5156: Add category R2

2011-03-10T19:15:44Z

Add category R2

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	\| title = APERTURE CARDS OF TRUNK ROADS SCHEMES		\| title = APERTURE CARDS OF TRUNK ROADS SCHEMES

Chris5156: Add category RN

2011-03-10T18:42:41Z

Add category RN

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	\| title = APERTURE CARDS OF TRUNK ROADS SCHEMES		\| title = APERTURE CARDS OF TRUNK ROADS SCHEMES

Chris5156 at 14:32, 5 March 2011

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 ==Context==
-A file of road scheme plans stored on aperture card, which are in no particular order and seem to contain random extracts from much larger files. It is rather infuriating to find one fragment of a really interesting scheme, with no further information available on it.
+Some years ago, I wrote:
-==Contents of note==
+There seems to have been some effort to organise this box of cards now, because someone has clearly gone through all the drawing numbers marked on the cards and grouped them by scheme, numbered each group, and indexed them. Hoorah for that.
 * Plan showing "North and East London Major Road Network", produced by the GLC in February 1966. It shows the Lea Valley Route for the M11 and the PNLR, with junction locations.