The South Cross Route, one side of the London Motorway Box, the innermost ring road of the unbuilt 1960s London Ringways plan, would have paralleled the line between Wandsworth Road and Peckham Rye.
The only parts of Ringway 1 that were constructed were part of the West Cross Route between North Kensington and Shepherds Bush which was opened by Michael Heseltine in 1970, simultaneously with Westway, to loud protests; some residents hung a huge banners with 'Get us out of this Hell- Rehouse Us Now' outside their windows and protesters disrupted the opening procession by driving a lorry the wrong way along the new road.
RAF Ringway | Ringway 1 |
The station buildings were demolished when the East Cross Route (formerly A102(M) but now A12) was built alongside the railway alignment in the late 1960s as part of the aborted London Motorway Box scheme.