West Brompton (WE)

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What other infrastructure at West Brompton required the presence of its own interlocking? From the few diagrams I've seen there were WE home signals at the converging w/b junction from Earls Court, but that's all I've seen.

Was WE originally for a passenger link to the WLER, or was it only for exchanging goods and/or rolling stock?

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theonekea said:

What other infrastructure at West Brompton required the presence of its own interlocking? From the few diagrams I've seen there were WE home signals at the converging w/b junction from Earls Court, but that's all I've seen.

Was WE originally for a passenger link to the WLER, or was it only for exchanging goods and/or rolling stock?

I have very little information on West Brompton, but a description of the 1905 resignalling states

At West Brompton, the crossover remained as a ground frame and no signalbox was provided, although the signals controlling the area were coded 'WE'

[motormanmet]

There was a trailing crossover at the country end of West Brompton, ground frame 'WE' if i recall.

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motormanmet said:

There was a trailing crossover at the country end of West Brompton, ground frame 'WE' if i recall.

Indeed there was and it was used too. If there were engineering works soth of WB it came in very handy. Earl's Court had to release it before use though. On one occassion there was some sort of block in the evening peak at Fulham Broadway and we had to reverse over the crossover to get some movement as the block back had bunged up Earl's Court.