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Cambridge Gardens, LONDON, W10 6JD

Here light industry is housed under an elevated section of the A40 Westway road

Until Transport for London in the early 2000s this was the A40(M) motorway with a 60mph speed limit. It turned out TfL didn't have power over motorways so they downgraded it to an A road, removed the street lighting and dropped the limit to 40. Don't ask me why, it worked perfectly well for around 40 years exactly as it was but TfL have dropped the speed limit on nearly every trunk road by 10-20mph. The backs of the houses are on Cambridge Gardens.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38023

Taken on the eastbound platform at Ladbroke Grove station.

Looking towards the Westway flyover.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm38024

Entrance to the Hammersmith & City Line station Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington, W10

What is now Ladbroke Grove station opened on 13th June 1864 and was served by two existing railway lines – the Hammersmith & City Railway which opened on the same day (owned by the Great Western Railway and running between Westbourne Park and Hammersmith stations) and the West London Railway (WLR) which opened just over two weeks later on 1st July 1864 and left this line at what is now Latimer Road to reach Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia). The link to Addison Road was closed on 19th October 1940. The station was originally opened as 'Notting Hill' It was renamed 'Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)' in 1869, 'Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove' in 1880 and 'Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)' in 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line serve the station and now also, in an effort to improve its reliability, the Circle Line. The next station in this direction is Latimer Road. The afternoon was quite as miserable as it looks in the photograph.

What is now Ladbroke Grove station opened on 13th June 1864 and was served by two existing railway lines – the Hammersmith & City Railway which opened on the same day (owned by the Great Western Railway and running between Westbourne Park and Hammersmith stations) and the West London Railway (WLR) which opened just over two weeks later on 1st July 1864 and left this line at what is now Latimer Road to reach Addison Road (now Kensington Olympia). The link to Addison Road was closed on 19th October 1940. The station was originally opened as 'Notting Hill' It was renamed 'Notting Hill (Ladbroke Road)' in 1869, 'Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove' in 1880 and 'Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington)' in 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938. Trains on the Hammersmith & City Line serve the station and now also, in an effort to improve its reliability, the Circle Line. The next station in this direction is Westbourne Park. The afternoon was quite as miserable as it looks in the photograph.