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Post by howda62 on Apr 30, 2017 22:00:53 GMT
1. Peartree 2. Hucknall 4. Hunts Cross 5. Hykeham 6. Barrow upon Soar
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Post by howda62 on Mar 21, 2017 7:03:49 GMT
The new Met timetable from 28th May 2000 announced that early morning and late evening trains would no longer serve the stations between Finchley Road and Wembley Park. Additional Jubilee line trains would call instead.
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Post by howda62 on Jan 16, 2017 20:24:20 GMT
Yes that looks much better than the ones I saw in 2015, thanks for sharing. I wonder how many years they expect the overhaul to keep the trains running.
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Post by howda62 on Jan 8, 2017 19:03:51 GMT
Has any one got photos of the 1938 stock taken on the I O W in 2016, so that we see the state of the trains compared with Chris W photos taken 2010 ? Not from 2016, but I spent a day on the IoW in August 2015 and took a few photos of the trains and line. The trains do look more weathered than those in Chris's photos, the cars forming Train 007 apparently had rust issues on the roof. Train 006 looked in better shape. Here's a link to some photos: click
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Post by howda62 on May 29, 2016 20:31:24 GMT
Thanks for the photo version3point1 . As a fairly frequent passenger it's quite unnerving how close that significant collapse is to the line. Looking from a train recently I've only noticed a short 10-foot section crumbling behind the cable run, far less disturbing. stapler , yes the embankment has had some work done on it in recent times with some trees cut down and I think a safe walkway was added behind the cable run. Not sure exactly when but in doing a quick search I've seen a youtube video from Feb 2014 with the embankment seemingly having a full row of trees, so I assume at some point in the past 2 years. The embankment concerned starts just west of the M25 under which the met line passes. This google map view shows how the area used to be. On the map, the area concerned is to the left of the M25 and on the south side of the rail line. Google calls it Pheasant's Wood. I've not seen the extremities of the slip from the train, but I guess the area of the slip would be from around half way between the M25 and Berry Lane, leading westwards towards Berry Lane. So I guess tree roots may have been helping to keep the embankment stable before. Wonder what this might mean for various other embankments that have been given the same treatment.
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Post by howda62 on May 5, 2016 21:12:46 GMT
TFL has today sent out an email acknowledging 2-3 minute delays, possibly targeted at those who use stations at the north end of the Met.
Quote:
"For safety reasons, Metropolitan line trains are running with a temporary speed restriction in the Chorleywood area. This is while we carry out work to stabilise the embankment, following a landslide.
The speed restriction is adding two or three minutes to journeys north of Rickmansworth. Our engineers are working as quickly as possible to ensure no further damage is caused and to restore full line speed. I am sorry for the delays to your journey."
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Post by howda62 on Apr 24, 2016 10:53:26 GMT
the End State Track Layout documents state: 34 Road - removal of hand worked points on 34 Road and removal of track up to existing sand drag. (siding remain intact) future at ATC commissioning: plain-lining of 28B and 30A points.
Thanks!
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Post by howda62 on Apr 24, 2016 9:07:31 GMT
Thanks Tom. With talk in other threads about points removals I wondered that given very few Chiltern trains are scheduled to reverse South-North (a couple early morning/late evening at weekends I think) at Amersham these days, that cost of maintenance etc had won out over benefits of retaining it.
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Post by howda62 on Apr 23, 2016 22:10:12 GMT
I noticed today that work has started at Amersham on removing the disused stub track north of the points into 34rd (the unelectrified southern siding) that led up to the platform end. Maybe not significant in itself but all the 34rd track through to its southern end has been painted with marks which appear they could be cutting points for removing all the track.
Is there a plan to remove this siding or maybe replace it with new (electified?) track as part of the SSR upgrade plans? (or maybe I'm reading too much into those marks)
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Post by howda62 on Nov 4, 2015 21:31:28 GMT
Looking at the large scale Ordnance survey maps, there appear to be three public footpaths crossing the line between Ongar and Blake Hall without benefit of a bridge. There are two more between Amersham and the LT/NR boundary (which, as we are told on another thread, is not at Mantles Wood, but at High Spring). EDIT - re-reading that post, the second crossing on the Chiltern Line appears to be just on the NR side of the boundary, by a matter of yards!
Yes indeed, the crossing is a short distance north of the NR/LT boundary. The photo at the top of that LT/NR boundary article is obviously looking northbound, and if you look at the middle of the picture near the right hand edge you will see a shiny object in the middle of the left hand (northbound) track. That is a ramp leading onto the edge of the pedestrian crossing which has a raised platform to track height between the tracks.
The metal post and signs you can see immediately to the right of the foreground sign (and left of the northbound track) includes a quite old rectangular sign that is also declaring the track boundary between BR and LUL. There is a changeover in style of sleepers and track clips at this point.
Considering the point where the track type changes, it is about 20 yards south of this pedestrian crossing. At a guess the more southerly sign in the linked article is about another 30-40 yards away from the crossing. I wonder where between the two sets of signs the actual boundary is, but wherever it is, the crossing is north of it.
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Post by howda62 on Nov 2, 2015 20:20:57 GMT
Stations starting "Cha", the 5th being Charing Cross ?
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Post by howda62 on Nov 1, 2015 21:46:08 GMT
B - Chalfont & Latimer ? B Inset - Charlecote Park
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Post by howda62 on Oct 17, 2015 10:05:41 GMT
I needed to buy a day return ticket a few weeks ago from an LU ticket machine and wanted to use my Network Railcard. I too encountered the lack of a Network Railcard button on the screen. The assistant noticed I was stuck on the screen and quickly came over. She duly advised that LU does not distinguish between all the possible types of railcards and that what I needed to do was the use the "Gold Card" option (forget the actual words for it) as this would cost the same as if using a Network Railcard. On the printed ticket, it is simply described as a "CSN DAY RETURN", CSN presumably meaning concession, and no mention of Gold Card. I never had to present the ticket to anyone so it was never validated by a human, but I assume this was correct advice?
This is a few months after your experience so perhaps this situation is now well known to the assistants.
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Post by howda62 on Oct 14, 2015 21:21:58 GMT
I didn't spot that train today. However 2-3 months ago I was on a Watford bound service that proclaimed itself to be heading towards Watford Junction.
Well, OK, only for about 30 seconds
Whilst stopped at Harrow the CIS announced "The destination of this train has changed. This is now an all stations train to Watford Junction". Followed about 30 seconds later with "The destination of this train has changed. This is now an all stations train to Watford".
I think someone reported on the Croxley Link thread that the S8 CIS had been updated several months ago to include the new stations.
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Post by howda62 on Oct 11, 2015 15:53:41 GMT
+2 for Piccadilly Line and destination Uxbridge. I'm going to guess Acton Town as being a driver sign on point.
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Post by howda62 on Oct 9, 2015 21:23:37 GMT
I've been referencing my copy of Mike Horne's "The Metropolitan Line, an illustrated history". The flyover was built in 1938 as part of the works to swap the met line track layouts between Finchley Road and Preston Road to have the fasts running as the outer lines. However 6 platforms at Wembley Park converged down to 4 tracks north of Wembley Park meaning trains to Stanmore and Harrow-on-the-Hill shared tracks. In 1954 he notes extra tracks being laid to achieve full segregation of the Met and Bakerloo lines north of Wembley Park. I hope this helps to correlate the valid comments made by marri260 and rdm, it helped me
He calls the junction either Stanmore Line junction or Stanmore Junction.
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Post by howda62 on Oct 4, 2015 16:47:00 GMT
Inset 1 - Some filming at Leeds Town Hall
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Post by howda62 on Oct 2, 2015 7:59:48 GMT
So based on this new information, in this photo taken north of that crossing, the signal just ahead of this southbound Chiltern ECS working must be RJW1/2.
P1200616 by howda62, on Flickr
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Post by howda62 on Oct 2, 2015 6:35:44 GMT
Thanks tut for that explanation
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Post by howda62 on Sept 24, 2015 8:17:06 GMT
In the case of Down Street, I notice TfL is seeking to find a commercial opportunity for the site: tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-commercial/commercial-opportunities/new-projects?intcmp=5573
There's some interesting ideas in the brochure on that page on how the station could be adapted to a business use. If they gain interest in this, there may not be many more opportunities to see Down Street in its disused form, though of course depending on what type of business takes up the offer, there may be cheap opportunities to visit the adapted part of it.
I wonder what came out of the bidders conference back in May.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 21, 2015 7:21:17 GMT
21 Chorleywood?
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Post by howda62 on Sept 18, 2015 16:57:08 GMT
There's more information in the planning application here. I couldn't see any detailed reasoning why the new bridge is needed, but in the Correspondence Letter from TfL listed there it talks about the old bridge being life expired and not viable to bring up to current standards, so a new bridge needed. It talks about the current foundations being unable to support the calculated vertical and horizontal loads exerted by the new bridge. So they appear to be underpinning the western supports and building an additional support on the eastern side.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 16, 2015 7:44:01 GMT
Interesting. I'm still not sure how accurate that version may be. I just made a quick look around some areas I know fairly well. Looking at Baker Street, the Jubilee line is shown running North/South but it's clear at Baker Street the Bakerloo/Jubilee alignments are almost parallel so the Jubilee should be shown running East/West at that point. Other historical maps, and carto.metro, show the Jubilee running towards Marylebone and turning northwards there.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2015 21:34:50 GMT
Thanks for clarifying motorman.
Historically in the days of steam, these types of occurrences could presumably happen fairly frequently, or maybe back then track verges were kept deliberately clear for this reason? The said tree in this incident was quite close to the track.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2015 20:54:55 GMT
Thanks for the video link tjw. Good to hear it did run. I've only seen these steam locos and carriages either on video or from a regular train hurtling past. Looking good as always. I really must go and see them close-up, I feel some plans for tomorrow changing. I notice Sarah was also in the rake, so presumably she was also providing traction as well as the two steam locos.
I really hope they sorted the fire out.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2015 19:28:54 GMT
I believe Met 1 was supposed to be running today, though I didn't get to see it. I didn't explicitly mention it in the OP as I felt it too much conjecture to attribute any cause to it, not even being sure if the train ran.
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Post by howda62 on Sept 12, 2015 16:32:20 GMT
On a met train to Amersham this afternoon, we got held at Rickmansworth and again at Chorleywood. Just north of Chorleywood the reason became clear. The top part of a tallish tree backing onto the line was on fire. Many hi-viz folks present on the track with hand held fire extinguishers. Can't see they could do much with the fire themselves (it was above train height), but of course be prepared in case the fire spread towards the track. I assume they were waiting for the fire service to tackle from above. Hope it gets sorted quickly. I assume something hot must have fallen into the top of the tree?
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Post by howda62 on Sept 6, 2015 9:51:21 GMT
Ah, good news . Thanks
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Post by howda62 on Sept 6, 2015 8:33:10 GMT
Thanks for the update. Does this mean some other D stock have now been disposed of to make space?
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Post by howda62 on Aug 30, 2015 15:02:09 GMT
I'll take a punt at Canons Park northbound.
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