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Post by howda62 on Aug 30, 2015 11:49:21 GMT
I'm afraid I can't answer your questions on the signals, but there was some prior discussion of these trains in this thread.
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Post by howda62 on Aug 30, 2015 9:11:10 GMT
I'll try just east of South Kensington taken from an eastbound District/Circle, thinking the buildings may be those on Pelham Street. Tut, not totally sure if you meant taken from or viewing the westbound, if the latter I guess this is +1
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Post by howda62 on Aug 18, 2015 7:13:39 GMT
Is the D Stock unit still at Amersham? I saw it on trackernet on Saturday but today it's disappeared. It was definitely there yesterday evening at 9pm when I got home.
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Post by howda62 on Aug 16, 2015 10:28:14 GMT
It will be interesting to see how the trains are reversed now in the peaks, though if as MoreToJack says, one siding has been out of use recently I guess the situation is already well rehearsed.
As a slight side point I recall back in 2000 that a timetable change (not sure if May or September) saw most (all?) weekend met trains reverse in the platforms rather than using the sidings. I initially thought it was a temporary measure for a few weekends but it carried on permanently, hence I assume timetabled. At this time Amersham had 2pth fasts to Aldgate, 2tph semi-fasts to Baker Street and 2tph Chilterns (1tph Sundays + the 1tph Amersham-Aylesbury pm shuttle). As I recall the scheduled operation on a Saturday seemed to be: A northbound Chiltern would pull into Platform 1 and go on its way. The next met train to arrive would then go into platform 1 and reverse back south before the next Chiltern was due. The second met train meanwhile would pull into platform 2 for its reversal. It somehow made the station feel much busier than with regular turnarounds through the sidings. I expect it kept the signallers busier as well in times of even slight disruption.
This platform reversal procedure at weekends carried on until 2002, though in May 2001 the timetable reduced the 4tph met trains to just 2tph Baker Street fasts, so easier to manage. I never understood why this platform reversal procedure came in, I think the sidings were used as normal during weekdays (or at least the peaks).
Back to the main point, in the current peak timetable there's a max of 4 met trains per hour from/to Amersham so one siding should seemingly cope. It could be interesting if the Chesham branch gets blocked for some reason, and those trains divert to Amersham. That's one fairly recent reason I have seen trains together in both of the north sidings. I guess severe disruption could now more likely mean trains terminated at Rickmansworth.
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Post by howda62 on Aug 15, 2015 7:35:14 GMT
Firstly, Hi everyone. Long term reader of this forum, I recently joined to also be able to contribute when possible.
I've just been to grab the morning paper and can confirm there's a D stock in the first siding at Amersham.
(I hope these links work.)
P1190685sml by David Howells, on Flickr
Larger photos here
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Post by howda62 on Jul 18, 2015 8:34:42 GMT
Ramsgate for the inset?
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