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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 12:22:21 GMT
Does anyone know why it's relatively less easy to get to the furthermost Olympia bay platform (I think it's Platform 4) at High Street?
And am I right in thinking it used to be semi-enclosed from the rest of the station by a wood-and-glass partition screen?
I can remember travelling into this platform only once.
Andy Emmerson.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 12:37:26 GMT
It has a very narrow staircase!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 14:45:35 GMT
The public access at the 'north' end of platform 4 to platforms 2 and 3 was commissioned on 22/3/93.
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Post by roythebus on Jul 1, 2014 8:31:51 GMT
I don't remember the wood and glass screen being there, well not in the early 1970s. There used to be a bit of over-run towards the dead end but that I believe was for the Jinty to run round with the col train to the goods yard. (what goods yard I hear you ask)... where the hotel is there was a huge goods and coal yard, you can still see the approach to the right side at the end of platform 4. There's a separate thread about it on here somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 11:13:58 GMT
Certainly in latter days the Jinty didn't run round in the station at HSK - it couldn't. The train was propelled up into the goods yard which is where the engine ran round so it was at the right end for the westbound trip back to Brent yard/sidings. Looking at signal and track plans back to the 1930s (when Cromwell Curve box was commissioned - 21/6/35), there was no run round at the 'north' end, but there must have been at some stage until at least electrification. The signal box at Cromwell Road took control of the High Street area from 6/9/36.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 12:46:51 GMT
To hijack this slightly: anyone know the last time this platform saw a C-stock?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jul 1, 2014 14:25:55 GMT
To hijack this slightly: anyone know the last time this platform saw a C-stock? I certainly took one in there just before the last passenger day, i'm guessing Thurs 29 May. Train 72 5592+5517+5533 was booked to reverse there on Mon 2 June 0518-0529
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 14:37:08 GMT
To hijack this slightly: anyone know the last time this platform saw a C-stock? The last C stock to use High St Ken Platform 4 should have been on Monday June 2nd, the last full day of C service: train 72 arr 0518 ex Wimbledon, departing at 0529. I video'd the working here a few weeks previously. Regarding the extension of the track beyond No 4 platform end, which still survives, this was to allow for the sometimes quite long Midland freights to clear the point for the reversal into the goods yard. In that confined space a Jinty opening up for that brief but steeply graded propelling manoeuvre must have been quite something to behold. Recently published by Ian Allan, 'Twenty Five Years Of London Transport 1949-74' has a useful but undated photo on p14 (lower) showing the trace of the already lifted siding but with the arch roofed goods shed still in place before the site was developed for an hotel, etc. Unfortunately the author's caption only refers to the Q stock District train in the photo and makes no reference whatsover to the interest value of the location, which apart from the goods yard shows the train emerging from the District tunnel and crossing over to the Met/Circle tracks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 17:03:53 GMT
Many thanks to all who have added their memories. I had no idea that coal trains shunted forward into Platform 4, although this may explain the need for a screen there. Illustrated articles in Railway Bylines (May 2003) and London Railway Record No.41 (October 2004) cover the train workings. The yard closed on 25 November 1963, after which it remained in use as a public car park (with large maroon London Midland Region enamel signs).
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Post by John Tuthill on Jul 1, 2014 18:30:20 GMT
Many thanks to all who have added their memories. I had no idea that coal trains shunted forward into Platform 4, although this may explain the need for a screen there. Illustrated articles in Railway Bylines (May 2003) and London Railway Record No.41 (October 2004) cover the train workings. The yard closed on 25 November 1963, after which it remained in use as a public car park (with large maroon London Midland Region enamel signs). This thread is like the Twilight Zone! I got dragged to a bring and buy sale last Sunday, and looking through the books as I always do what did I find? A copy of issue 41! Cost me a fortune(50p) Two photos it does show is the sidings access ay HSK and a class 3F 0-6-0 47432 entering an overgrown siding.
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