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Post by shunterl44 on Oct 29, 2022 16:58:00 GMT
D - Disused deep level interchage ticket office at Euston
Link - all disued stations or sections of stations
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Post by shunterl44 on Aug 19, 2022 11:37:09 GMT
Not sure if it helps but I have driven E Class Met 1 on and off LT metals and it is most definitly right hand drive.
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Post by shunterl44 on Jun 28, 2022 12:10:06 GMT
The first four of the new wagons (BW001, BW002, FW001 & FW002) have recently arrived at The Chinnor & Princess Risborough Railway from Eastleigh where there had some 'rectification work' undertaken - I have heard loose bolts mentioned. The four vehicles have been fitted with sensors by Data Acquisition & Testing Services Ltd. (D.A.T.S.) and they are monitoring the performance of the wagons while running up and down the line. They need to accumulate 1200 km of running for the tests prior to LU accepting them.
The train has D.A.T.S.'s HST power (43 066) at one end and Chinnor’s Class 37 (37 227) at the other.
The tests will be running weekdays for the next couple of weeks.
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Post by shunterl44 on Mar 21, 2022 9:57:45 GMT
+ 1 for the bridge location
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Post by shunterl44 on Aug 8, 2021 11:29:31 GMT
Couple of things about North End/ Bull & Bush station. First, I recall reading that Lady Barnett wanted the station to open to allow easy access to the Heath Extension but the UndergrounD weren't interested as the extension meant that there would be little housing and hence too little income. The station came into its own during the project to remove the experimental sound reduction asbestos panels from the running tunnels providing a useful location to store the double bagged waste awaiting removal by works train.
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 13, 2021 16:38:11 GMT
Excuse me for being picky but since when did High Wycombe on the Chiltern Line out of Marylebone become part of London Overground?
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 9, 2021 11:23:03 GMT
B is High Wycombe, looking across the track of P3 towards the mega retaining wall opposite P2
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 7, 2021 16:12:56 GMT
FCFS??
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Post by shunterl44 on Mar 31, 2021 9:56:52 GMT
This has brought back some very happy memories of a very cold January in 1980. I was the fireman of Coventry No. 1 used in the video and had the 'unfortunate' task of keeping Annie warm on the footplate between takes. Well someone had to!
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Post by shunterl44 on Jan 22, 2021 10:12:51 GMT
+1 for C
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 29, 2020 16:52:08 GMT
A looks like the North Circular Road bridge over the Met, Jubilee and Chiltern between Neasden & Neasden Depot
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 13, 2020 9:45:22 GMT
Looks like two LUL lines crossing in the open so I am going for the bridge where the Piccadilly crosses over the Central line between North Acton and Hanger Lane.
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Post by shunterl44 on Jul 10, 2020 11:01:44 GMT
Waford to St Albans Abbey?
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Post by shunterl44 on Jun 30, 2020 10:26:07 GMT
+1 for Ruislip Depot
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Post by shunterl44 on Jun 26, 2020 9:52:42 GMT
Location A - Approach to Uxbridge?
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Post by shunterl44 on Jun 18, 2020 9:12:27 GMT
+1 for Mallaig and K1 No. 62005
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Post by shunterl44 on May 23, 2020 16:42:50 GMT
+1 for Hampstead Station
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Post by shunterl44 on Apr 21, 2020 17:13:54 GMT
How about Pitsea for number 67?
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Post by shunterl44 on Apr 20, 2020 16:27:58 GMT
Just wondering if 35 should be Gunnersbury not Highbury...
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Post by shunterl44 on Apr 11, 2020 16:38:13 GMT
+1 for the lower pic being Castle Mound, Oxford
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Post by shunterl44 on Feb 27, 2020 10:15:18 GMT
Is location D (between Neasden & Wembly Park) the odd one out? Neither of two stations it is between have a compass direction in their name while the other three do - WEST Finchley; NORTHolt; Hounslow EAST.
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Post by shunterl44 on Feb 12, 2020 12:51:58 GMT
Patmos? Looking from Skala across to Etia
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Post by shunterl44 on Aug 16, 2019 11:03:46 GMT
Inset - River Thames at Henley
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Post by shunterl44 on May 17, 2019 8:57:28 GMT
17 Florence Nightingale was the number and name of one of the Met electric locos like Sarah Siddons No. 12.
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Post by shunterl44 on Apr 4, 2018 9:52:47 GMT
I posted this back in October but I now notice that cabling has commenced but there has been not obvious rectification work to the support system and so it is still all up and down. Shame.
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Post by shunterl44 on Jan 10, 2018 17:41:22 GMT
Countryman is correct. 'Four Foot' is the nickname for the 4' 8 1/2" gap between the running rails. The 'six foot' and the 'ten foot' are actual measurements for the gap between adjacent running lines and between a running line and an additional running line or siding. They are shown in the Ministry of Transport's 'Requirements for Passenger Lines and Recommendations for Goods Lines in Regard to Railway Construction and Operation' (know as the Blue Book) available at www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Requirements1950.pdf. There is a coloured diagram at the end of the booklet.
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Post by shunterl44 on Nov 7, 2017 10:58:14 GMT
Two things Scheduler:
1. When the Manchester Sheffield & Lincoln (MSLR) (later the Great Central (GCR)) was in negotiations with the Metropolitan Railway there was an agreement that there would stations on the MSLR south of Harrow-on-the-Hill. When the cut-off line to Neasden to Northolt was built the Metropolitan were not happy with the GCR station at Wembly Hill (now Wembly Stadium) as they considered it breached the agreement. So, is the agreement still valid? Before the history buffs out there get too hot under their collective collars, I know that following the bomb damage to Brondesbury viaduct, there was a temporary station built at Neasden while access to Marylebone was unavailable.
2. I suspect that the distance between the two tunnels at South Hampstead would be too short to accommodate 8 or 9 coach Chiltern trains and I am not exactly sure what such an interchange would achieve. A better location for a new interchange would be in the West Hampstead where there would be multiple possibilities but what the implications on Chiltern line timings would be, i don't know.
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Post by shunterl44 on Oct 9, 2017 8:49:09 GMT
While travelling in to Marylebone on Chiltern last week, I have noticed that they have begun to install the cable run supports, presumably for the SSR Resignalling cables, between the north and south bound Jubilee line tracks. It's a real shame that the contractor seems to not have access to a laser level or even a spirit level as the supports roll up and down, seemingly at random (and I don't mean where they have to cross other infrastructure or passageways); such a shame. Lets hope that the level of workmanship of the actual system is of a better quality!
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Post by shunterl44 on Aug 23, 2017 8:07:39 GMT
There are now blue 'footprints' on the right hand side of both escalators at Marylebone - an extension of Passenger etiquette maybe?
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Post by shunterl44 on Jun 5, 2017 7:46:05 GMT
Just a thought....
The Met fast lines north of Harrow are signalled as BR standard four aspect (red-yellow-double yellow-green) rather than the Underground standard of two aspect (red-green) with repeaters when required (yellow-green), sometimes on the same post. Does this mean that the new signals will have to have five aspects?
Also, the 165s and 168s are fitted with ATP which is in use when working over Network Rail sections; is this or could this be introduced in conjunction with the ATC system?
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