page_title: History of the Crossrail line
section_title: Ladbroke Grove plans
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Crossrail line / Ladbroke Grove plans
caption_attribution_description: Ladbroke Grove tube station, Taken from the Westbound platform
context_page_description: The Crossrail line was first proposed in 1941. It was first proposed to Parliament in 1991 but was rejected. It was then proposed by the government as the Crossrail bill in 2005. Construction started in 2009 and the central section is scheduled to open in 2020 or 2021.
context_section_description: The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea was pushing for an additional station in the north of the borough, east of Old Oak Common, at Kensal off Ladbroke Grove and Canal Way. A turn-back facility, now built west of Paddington, could have been sited at Kensal to provide a frequent service to a new station to regenerate that area. Former Mayor Boris Johnson agreed that a station would be added if it met three tests: it must not delay construction of Crossrail, it did not compromise performance of Crossrail or any other railway, and it must not increase Crossrail's overall cost. So the council agreed to underwrite the projected £33 million cost, and a consultancy study that then concluded a Kensal station would not compromise Crossrail.
  TfL conducted a feasibility study on the station, and the project was supported by local MPs and residents, the National Grid, and some retailers. It was also supported by the adjoining London Borough of Brent. However, all three Mayoral tests set have not been met, and in early 2013 it was indicated that neither the DfT nor TfL supported the construction of the station, and Crossrail construction continued without planning for a station at Kensal. There was official closure of the issue in April 2013.
  The plans were briefly resurrected by former Mayor Boris Johnson in 2016 but not by incoming Mayor Sadiq Khan.
caption: Ladbroke Grove Underground station[26]
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