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The London Underground is 270 stations big, but there could have been more had certain plans of history gone ahead.

West London is already fairly well served by the Tube network compared with, say, South London, but no-one's exactly going to complain if travel was even easier.

Tube Line extensions and entirely new Underground lines could have connected certain West Londoners to other areas of the capital both day and night.

But, alas, all we can do now is mourn their non-existence.

Here's all the Underground stations in West London which never saw the light of day.

Denham

Line: Central

Planned: 1937

Cancelled: 1948

Interestingly, this would have been part of a planned Central line extension beyond West Ruislip, where the line stops now.

Plans couldn't go ahead because of the introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt, though National Rail still has routes through there.

Emlyn Road

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

Can you imagine the Central Line going to Richmond? Well once, in 1913 to be precise, there were plans to make it happen and this would have been one of the stations on the route.

Hammersmith

(Image: Transport for London)

Line: Central

Planned: 1919

Cancelled 1920s

This was also part of the plan to extend the Central Line to Richmond, but on an alternative route from the 1913 plan mentioned above.

Harefield Road

Line: Central

Planned: 1937

Cancelled: 1948

You're probably thinking every place in London was going to be on the Central Line at this point.

Sure enough Harefield Road would have been on the red line too.

Heathfield Terrace

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

Once again, this was all packed in because of that failed proposal to extend the line all the way to Richmond. Imagine how useful it would have been if to have the Night Tube venture there.

Kilburn

Line: North West London Railway

Planned: 1899

Cancelled: 1908

This would have been a separate station to the current Jubilee Line one at Kilburn. The company could not raise enough money to make it happen.

Maida Vale

Line: North West London Railway

Planned: 1899

Cancelled: 1908

The company never managed to raise funds and permissions expired. A separate station to the Bakerloo line station of the same name, which was planned later.

Paddenswick Road

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

Another one of those poor souls that never made it into existence because we were teased with the idea of extended the Central Line to Richmond then it was snatched from us.

Rylett Road

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

This was also going to be part of the Richmond extension.

The Grove

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

We can't get over the fact Richmond was going to be on the Central Line. This would have been one of the new stops.

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Turnham Green

Line: Central

Planned: 1913

Cancelled: 1919

We've spoken too much about that retched Central Line extension but this stop would have been on it too.

Can it just happen please?