M25 motorway re-examined as a motorway route in Sir Charles Bressey's and Sir Edwin Lutyens' "The Highway Development Survey, 1937". Sir Patrick Abercrombie's "County of London Plan, 1943" and "Greater London Plan, 1944" proposed a series of five roads encircling the capital. The northern sections of the M25 follow a similar route to the World War II Outer London Defence Ring, a concentric series of tanks and pillboxes designed to slow down a potential German invasion of the capital. Little was done to progress these plans until the 1960s when the Greater London Council developed its London Ringways plan consisting of four
R25 (London) R25 (London) R25 is a possible railway orbital around the Zone 3 area of London, England. The proposed line would use some existing lines by National Rail and London Overground. Issue 755 of "Rail Magazine" (20 August 2014) says that the Mayor of London has started consulting on a new Zone 3 orbital railway, the 'R25'. The nickname alludes to the M25 orbital motorway. The idea featured in news media when the Mayor visited Barking Riverside a large development held up by lack of rail access. The idea of extending the Gospel Oak to Barking Line trains onto the Tilbury