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The Elstree to St. John's Wood Cable Tunnel, known as The London Connection during construction, is a 20 km long, 3m wide tunnel beneath northwest London.Constructed between 2001 and 2005, the tunnel carries high voltage transmission lines from Elstree substation in Hertfordshire to Lodge Road sub station in Westminster at a depth of 20m below street level.
St. John's Wood is a London Underground station located in St John's Wood in the City of Westminster, north-west London. It was opened in 1939 as a stop on the Bakerloo line . Today, the station is on the Jubilee line between Swiss Cottage and Baker Street stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2 . [ 7 ]
Map of London Power Tunnels phase 1. The first phase involved constructing 32 km of tunnels linking substations from Wimbledon in the south west to Hackney in north east of London, at a cost of £1 bn. [3] The 3–4 m diameter tunnels were dug by tunnel boring machines and run 20–60 m below street level. [4]
London, St. John's Wood – Tottenham substations [36] 275 kV 51.527499°N 0.169376°W ; 51.603178°N 0.048243°W London, Tottenham – Redbridge substations 275 kV 51.603178°N 0.048243°W ; 51.588552°N 0.044926°E Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms, Lincolnshire – Walpole substation, Norfolk 2009 132 kV
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.Historically the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends from Regent's Park and Primrose Hill in the east to Edgware Road in the west, with the Swiss Cottage area of Hampstead to the north and Lisson Grove to the south.
The substation at Sundon, Bedfordshire adjacent to the M1 motorway was screened with a beech hedge, and at Bishop’s Wood in Worcestershire the substation was built within an existing wood. [2] In 1972 a Mark II low profile 400 kV substation was commissioned, the first was at Wymondley, Hertfordshire. The substation used lighter support ...
Marlborough Road is a disused London Underground station in St John's Wood, northwest London NW8, England. It opened in April 1868 [1] on the Metropolitan & St. John's Wood Railway, the first northward extension from Baker Street of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan line). It is located at the junction of Finchley Road and Queen's ...
Metropolitan & St John's Wood Railway: 1864 [68] 1870 [69] A continuation of the line from Swiss Cottage: Goodge Street: London Central Railway: 1871 [60] 1874 [61] Station would have been further west on Goodge Street to the west of the Northern line's station of the same name opened later Gower Street