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Noisy le Grand SK metro

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tro_de_Noisy-le-Grand

SK Noisy le Grand
Entrance to the (now closed) terminus at Noisy le Grand
Overview
Termini	Noisy-le-Grand – Mont d'Est Mailles Horizons
Connecting lines
Stations	2
Service
System	Paris Métro
Operator(s)	RATP
Ridership	0 (avg. per year)
History
Opened	Never
Closed	7 October 1999
Technical
Line length	0.560 km (0.348 mi)
Conduction system	Auto-Pilot

The Noisy le Grand SK line is an abandoned fully underground SK people mover, connecting the Noisy-le-Grand station on Paris' RER Line A to a planned office complex at Mailles Horizons. Although the line was completed in 1993 and fully operational for several years it was never opened to the public, as the developmenbt area it was built to serve did not materialise. The line was finally mothballed in 1999, and has since been subject to vandalism.

Rolling stock at the Roissy SK line, which was similar to the one at Noisy-le-Grand

History

The project cost an estimated 70 million Euros, of which 15 million were paid by the Commune.

The line was maintained between 1993 and 1999 with at least one circulation of the rolling stock every month, the costs of maintaining the unused line were estimated at one million French francs annually. In 1999, with no development underway at Mailles Horizons, the RATP decided to mothball the line, and has since made no comment on the future of the project.

The mayor of Noisy le Grand subsequently commented that "Apparently the rolling stock has not been maintained for the past five years. I can't see any solutions other than dismantling the system and filling in the tunnel. But doing that risks costing a small fortune". He noted that the technology has become obsolete, spare parts have become hard to obtain, and technical knowledge of the meintenance of SK systems has become dispersed.

Future

The air vent, and (in the background) the remains of the station entrance, at Mailles Horizons

Aucune ouverture n'est envisagée ni envisageable, l'équipement étant obsolète et inexploitable car non conforme aux normes en vigueur selon la municipalité3. D'autres systèmes SK ont fonctionné (Villepinte, Yokohama, Vancouver) et fonctionnent à travers le monde (Shanghai), la technologie répond à toutes les normes de sécurités en la matière. Cet équipement appartient toujours aux Établissements publics d'aménagement de Marne-la-Vallée (Epamarne), dépendant de l'État, qui l'a conçu et qui reste responsable de son éventuelle démolition.

The project was subsequently examined by the Ile de France Regional Chamber of Accounts, in view of the considerable sums of money that had been written off.

Other projects

Work in progress - Battersea Central Electricity Generating Station

Not to be confused with BPS

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/dc6d3e7c-e929-4536-89c3-c9995c20ce23

Battersea Metropolitan Borough Council Electricity Undertaking was authorised by the Battersea Electric Lighting Order 1896, which had been obtained by the Borough's predecessor the Vestry of Saint Mary, Battersea. In 1897 a site was purchased for a Central Electric Generating Station at Lombard Street and the foundation stone was laid in 1900. Electricity supply commenced in September 1901. Between 1902 and 1903, 768,879 Board of Trade Units of electricity were supplied to 324 consumers. In 1926 the first transformer sub-station was built at Chatham House and a Rental Wiring and Apparatus Hiring Service was introduced. In 1927 showrooms and offices were opened at Lavender Hill. Battersea's generating station became a 'Selected Station' under the Central Electricity Board's provisions, for connection to the newly established National Grid. By 1939 over 73,500,000 Board of Trade Units of electricity were supplied to Battersea consumers and a further 27,000,000 to the National Grid. The Undertaking was managed by the Council's Electricity Committee.

Source: (GLIAS) http://www.glias.org.uk/news/019news.html#A

Lombard Road Power Station, in Harroway Road, Battersea, has been closed down. Built in 1901, the station generated direct current, and was expanded steadily until in 1925 a 10,000 kilowatt set needed a tunnel driven out into the Thames to provide cooling water. Eventually the station was putting out 50,000 kilowatts. Coal supplies were brought by road and river. The station has been gradually run down, being used to generate power during peak demands, and was last used at full strength during the power crisis a few months ago.

Source: http://enablelc.org/green-spaces/green-spacesgreen-spacesgreen-spacesharroway-gardens/

Harroway Gardens - History: On Yelverton and Harroway Roads were small rows of Victorian terrace housing in a semi-industrial area near the Lombard Road power station. Much of this area adjacent to the railway line suffered significant bomb damage during World War Two. The Caius House was set up as a College mission to help the disadvantaged young people of Battersea and is next to the park. Development came in the late 1970s when Totteridge House and housing estate were laid out; the power station was replaced by a timber yard; Harroway Road itself was closed and part pedestrianised. The park is mounded up, probably using brick and rubble from demolished buildings.

Source: http://edithsstreets.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/thames-tributary-falcon-falcon.html

Lavender Hill Line of the Old Portsmouth Road, described also as the road to Kingston – it is the east west high road through the area. . The heart of Victorian and Edwardian Battersea. Housing in surrounding roads developed in the late 19th by Heaver and included were 31 shops here designed by Thomas of Gunnersbury. Named from the lavender cultivated in the market gardens which once lay to the north of this road in Battersea Fields. This was an 1820 nursery owned by William Pamplin growing for perfume makers.

265 Central Library. There is a weather vane in the design of a book reader

Arding & Hobbs. Henry Arding and Mr. Hobbs had had a store in Wandsworth in 1876. This large department store was opened in 1885 on a site bought from Tom Taylor. Hobbs retired in 1905. There is a corner cupola at the corner of St John's Hill, and large display windows at first-floor level. Designed in 1910 by James Gibson, following a fire in 1909 which killed 8, on the lines of central London stores. The rebuilding was the result of a fire in 1909. Now part of Debenhams.

Electric House. In 1927 this was offices for the Borough Electricity Dept and also included the Borough Health Dept. (204 lavender hill?)

Work in progress - Martineau Place

1960s era / clean up needed

Work in progress - Lavender Hill

B class? Retail section. Historic tube plans. Trams. Notable retailers? (Party) 2017 major repaving and upgrade.

Work in progress - Clays Lane Estate

Modernisation & cleanup, references in line, add map

Construction cost, demo

Museum of London project

Some work on UK section of hosing cooperatives

Redirect from clays lane housing coop

Work in progress - Robert Westall (artist)

Portrait of William Westall, by Robert Westall

Robert Westall was a British landscape artist. Both his father, William, and uncle, Richard, were notable painters. In 1849 he exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy entitled 'London from Pavilion Place, Battersea Fields'.

The view from Lavender Hill, painted in 1848 by Robert Westall, showing wide open fields, the then-new Battersea pumping station (built in 1840), and distant views of Westminster Abbey and Royal Hospital Chelsea. This view encouraged the early construction of several villas among the Lavender fields.

A 1948 painting believed to be by Robert Westall is in the collection of the Museum of London.

William Westall by Robert Westall

http://westallart.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/robert-westall-at-ra-and-rsba.html

http://westallart.blogspot.co.uk/2010_09_01_archive.html westall brothers

Same Westall?