Plan showing the line of a Hammersmith, City & North East London Railway : Royal Commission on London Traffic : Volume 5 - maps & diagrams : HMSO : London : 1906

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Plan showing the line of a Hammersmith, City & North East London Railway : Royal Commission on London Traffic : Volume 5 - maps & diagrams : HMSO : London : 1906
Plan showing the line of a Hammersmith, City & North East London Railway : Royal Commission on London Traffic : Volume 5 - maps & diagrams : HMSO : London : 1906

The mighty Royal Commission on London Traffic that was set up to report on "the means of locomotion and transport" in the Metropolis and to report on the better organisation, development and inter-connections between the various methods of mechanical transport. The Commission was pertinent given the rapid shift to electric operation of tramways at the time as well as the many, opposing, plans for additional deep level tube lines. Volume 5 contains dozens of plans and maps illustrating the current situation in London, relating to congestion, population, workplaces as well as the contemporary transport network and proposals. The information comes from a variety of sources who were asked to give evidence to the Commission.

This plan, of a proposed Hammersmith, City & North East London Railway, was one of many tube railways that were considered in the early years of the Twentieth Century for London, so many that it kept not only this Royal Commission but various other Committees and the Houses of Parliament busy considering them. Some were more 'definite' than other, more developed and had a possibility of capital - but many were not. Such various proposals that neither got beyond the starting blocks or fell at various hurdles, legislative or financial, also had to face an increasingly charged political scene along with the machinations of two opposing American interests; the Yerkes group and the Speyer group. In simple terms, the former largely won out over the other and although the core of the city's Underground lines were in place by 1907 many areas as can be seen on this map lost out. Possibly the biggest loss was North East London; partially finally served in 1969 with the Victoria line but Hackney, whose 'latest' hope had been Crossrail 2, still waits.

The plan was 'handed in' by a Mr. R. Elliott-Cooper of the Institute of Civil Engineers and Mr. A. F. Hills, chairman of the Thames Ironworks Company who perhaps saw some engineering opportunities. I think the HCNER fell due to a failure to pay the Parliamentary deposit.

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