Hampstead Junction Railway
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The Hampstead Junction Railway between Willesden Junction (Low Level) and Camden Road via Gospel Oak was chartered by an Act of 1853, which had to be renewed in 1857 before the line finally opened on 2 January 1860. The engineer was Sir George Berkley, and the line was noteworthy for having the world's first interlocking points and signals. The line was initially worked by a combination of two companies -- the London & North Western Railway provided the staff, and the North London Railway provided the rolling stock -- and this divided oversight may in part have been responsible for a disastrous accident on 2 September 1862 when an excursion train ran into a ballast train with the loss of sixteen lives. The line was absorbed by the London & North Western Railway in 1867 and remains an important suburban line in the twenty-first century. |
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