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Post by bassmike on Feb 20, 2011 11:04:09 GMT
I just remembered Brian A60K that the U bahn doesn't run 45 miles or so out into the middle of nowhere even though it migh run at a greater elevation than the S bahn at some points.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 19, 2011 22:18:34 GMT
re uk bashing, dare I mention the Central line which ran third rail in cast-iron tunnels from its inception in early 1900's to 1939 when it was converted' Also the Post-Office railway which ran until it's closure. With modern-day techniques tou don't need a fourth rail. my main argument( apart from the UG//OG business is that with third rail all over, you have much more possibilities for flexible working which would enable many more useful services. Re the Paris metro ,it was built initially for a limited area origionally planned I think for metre gauge which explains the small tunnels and close spacing of the tracks. This would prevent your suggestion of the RER sharing part of it. The RER is compatible with the main-line railways, and interworks with SNCF all over like I suggested that we could if we got rid of the third rail. I think there is a similar post on Tubeprune with someone else making the same point.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 18, 2011 13:22:50 GMT
croydon tramlink Birkbeck station?
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Post by bassmike on Feb 18, 2011 13:19:07 GMT
this map only accentuates my remaks on an earlier post about the utter stupidity of Underground/Overground with similar roundels but different colours etc: As i said before, you have Overground shown in orange in outer suburbs etc but Underground with vast long" overground" branches ie; Amershan/Chesham and Epping while Overgound proper is down in the depths of a station like whitechapel with Underground above on its way out to Upminster miles out in the open. Only a Uk organisation(I use the word advisedly) could do this, but then this is the UK. The same applies, as I posted before, about third /fourth rail pick-up.If the whole lot was converted to third rail only there would be vastly improved means of interworking without complicated and pointless dual working arrangements. anywhere else but UK has not got these problems but then --they are self inflicted like so much else we see around us.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 12, 2011 4:06:11 GMT
ISTR that both 4472 Flying s Scotsman and Mallard have both been through here on railtours around the 70's/80's.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 8, 2011 14:52:41 GMT
under viaduct leading to putney bridge northbound
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Post by bassmike on Feb 5, 2011 16:20:37 GMT
I think the buyer would have to have access from below the building for maintainence purposes if nothing else.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 5, 2011 15:26:28 GMT
last time I looked, the infill slopes off quite a way from the building, in fact you could still see the platform ends and the space under the building was empty. I always fancied the ornate lamp bracket over the main door which looks like its still there! Also the ornate cast-iron bollards on the pavement outside.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 5, 2011 14:51:49 GMT
dosn,t mention that almost all of the building is supported on aged steel girders of probably by now doubtful condition , and I wonder where the trackbed space below comes into it, as it,s described as a single storey building.
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Post by bassmike on Feb 1, 2011 10:58:42 GMT
could be poor contact with centre neg: rail only used by bakerloos
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Post by bassmike on Jan 27, 2011 15:03:08 GMT
how do you simulate the steam from overheated engines?
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Post by bassmike on Jan 25, 2011 3:10:12 GMT
perhaps bronzeonion should get his facts right and brush up his knowledge before he jumps in the deep-end! lol
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Post by bassmike on Jan 24, 2011 18:12:10 GMT
A stock has been up to Derby by rail before and can travel on NR on several selected routes
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Post by bassmike on Jan 22, 2011 13:56:02 GMT
would'nt it have been easier to perform this whole operation somewhere more sensible with easier access etc: or even move them by rail but then this is england isn,t it...
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Post by bassmike on Jan 20, 2011 17:37:52 GMT
inset--lincoln?
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Post by bassmike on Jan 20, 2011 14:29:16 GMT
I like the Reginald Perrin "O" in LONDON on the fascia!
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Post by bassmike on Jan 19, 2011 12:58:18 GMT
gradient blackfriars down to city thameslink is 1 in 27
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Post by bassmike on Jan 16, 2011 15:39:57 GMT
main pic willesden junc:?
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Post by bassmike on Jan 13, 2011 14:56:27 GMT
further to last post ,ISTR that at about the time of the closure of ELL for conversion to LO someone posted a very good picture of whitechapel junction taken from the cab of a northbound A stock. It showed the two tunnel mouths with large support girder above as train passed through the open space mentioned above. If anyone couldre-locate this picture I would be very grateful as I have forgotten how to access it.
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Post by bassmike on Jan 13, 2011 14:27:50 GMT
as you approach whitechapel northbound on LO look carefully out of your lefthand window. you will see a patch of dim daylight ,this is where the st mary's curve diverged. You can see it on google earth as a hole in the ground just above Raven Row.
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Post by bassmike on Jan 3, 2011 14:52:15 GMT
I think the "site" between farringdon and moorgate would make an ideal maintainence depot (as in several locations on the Paris metro). It has plenty of lenght , is under cover of some sort for most of its area,and is accessible for most lines without too much difficulty.
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Post by bassmike on Dec 31, 2010 17:36:51 GMT
the line down through bow church had regular goods services from victoria park to poplar docks etc:until the late seventies or so (when the track was lifted) including several railtours (the last one by DMMU. It was used just before the DLR was built for noise tests by running a DMMU up and down the section which passed under a block of flats near wick lane .
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Post by bassmike on Dec 27, 2010 16:05:39 GMT
ISTR that many dmu's had Loughton/Epping etc: on their blinds for many years after the link to ER was severed
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Post by bassmike on Dec 17, 2010 14:21:20 GMT
crystal palace subway under C P parade?
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Post by bassmike on Dec 14, 2010 13:10:52 GMT
osterley old station?
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Post by bassmike on Dec 10, 2010 0:36:13 GMT
re capacity at liverpool st why not (at the time) stratford- hackney-eastern junc;-broad st:? Cost would have been reasonable as these lines were all usable then.Would have made much better use of broad st: for very little expense.
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Post by bassmike on Dec 9, 2010 15:55:19 GMT
there were hydraulic buffers on the up platform at spring grove for many years. I first noticed them around 1964/65 .
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Post by bassmike on Dec 9, 2010 15:48:34 GMT
further to last post (keeping on the origional thread ) the car parking would have been alleviated by having more station car parks at more stations( as suggested -north weald etc;)
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Post by bassmike on Dec 9, 2010 15:43:24 GMT
this problem is the outcome of the mistake of extending the central over E.R tracks to epping/ongar. the line should have been part of the E R electrification scheme including the hainault loop via newbury park to ilford. The central could have run from stratford either using ER tracks as far as leytonstone( or two dedicated tracks alongside) and then via gants hill tosurface and interchange at newbury park (there is /was enough room at n.p. for reversing facilities.Anyone who has travelled from epping/ ongar to central london on a tube train knows the the distance is too far for comfortable travel on these vehicles.
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Post by bassmike on Dec 4, 2010 15:21:36 GMT
brondesbury n/l/line?
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