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Post by twobellstogo on Jul 25, 2023 16:26:29 GMT
There's one car of A Stock preserved at the LTM depot in Acton There are two cars at the LTM Depot: 5034 6110 Oh, didn’t know 6110 had survived too. Wasn’t that part of the final RAT?
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Post by richard on Jul 25, 2023 19:09:34 GMT
There's one car of A Stock preserved at the LTM depot in Acton There are two cars at the LTM Depot: 5034 6110 I forgot about the other one 🤦♂️
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 26, 2023 0:17:43 GMT
Why was the A-Stock banned east of Aldgate East? Too long and wide for most platforms, although they have run to Barking Upminster and of course to New Cross depot I find the S7/8 are very wide also. I notice at some platforms that it looks like between train door edge and platform less than 2 inches.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 26, 2023 0:23:44 GMT
Past 2 days Elizabeth line seems to be crap, caused by problems in the west again. Seems to be a daily thing. In some ways I am now glad it is only a 30 minutes service of trains from Shenfield branch going to Heathrow and none to Reading. The Heathrow trains are almost always late or get held up after leaving Heathrow and gets cancelled or curtailed on the return. Many of the last trains in the tunnel section was cancelled again this evening because of this.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jul 26, 2023 3:59:46 GMT
I find the S7/8 are very wide also. I notice at some platforms that it looks like between train door edge and platform less than 2 inches. After the last A, C and D Stock were withdrawn many platform nosing stones were adjusted closer to the train to reduce the gap.
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Post by greenboy on Jul 26, 2023 5:43:22 GMT
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 26, 2023 9:53:30 GMT
Seems a load of Shenfield trains going to Heathrow all cancelled. With even some non Heathrow trains cancelled.
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Post by greenboy on Jul 26, 2023 10:57:40 GMT
Everything through the core terminating at Paddington
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Post by VPL630 on Jul 26, 2023 23:36:22 GMT
Network rail infrastructure failure that still hasn’t been fixed, caused a number of issues for both GWR/Hex and EL, but for once has absolutely nothing to do with EL other than ruining their services, looks like it will be all tomorrow morning as well despite a number of ‘experts’ trying to work out how to fix it
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Post by wirewiper on Jul 27, 2023 9:01:55 GMT
The North Woolwich Goods Yard site, which was used by the Crossrail project as a construction site for the North Woolwich Portal, is to become a housing development.
The railway reached North Woolwich in 1847, and as well as a passenger station there was a large goods yard, taking advantage of the riverside location. However by 1963 the goods yard was only handing coal traffic and acting as carriage sidings, and the yard closed in 1970.
The original passenger terminus building still stands. It was replaced by a new station building in 1979 when the North Woolwich-Stratford shuttle was upgraded and extended to Camden Town; this building was subsequently demolished when the site was cleared by Crossrail. Having become part of the North London Line, passenger services between Stratford and North Woolwich ceased in December 2006 after the arrival of the DLR at King George V the previous year. Parts of the route have since been used by Crossrail itself (including a refurbished Silvertown Tunnel), and by the DLR route between Stratford and Canning Town which opened in 2011. The original building was a local railway museum for a time and is now owned by a church. The church also owns the land on which the railway line into the station platforms was laid; this land apparently cannot be built on as it is directly over the Elizabeth Line. It is a shame though that it could not have been used to provide a new linear park for the area.
North Woolwich was an historical anomaly; although on the Essex side of the river, it was in the historical County of Kent and was part of the Parish of Woolwich. This arrangement is thought to date back to the reign of William I (William The Conqueror) who rewarded his followers by granting and redistributing land in order to consolidate his own power. Foremost amongst these was Hamo, Steward to the King and Sheriff of Kent, who is shown in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding land on both sides of the river at Woolwich. It is thought that by holding both lands as a single Manor, he would have control of the tax revenues from the ferry crossing, and possible military and political advantages especially given the importance of the sea-river approach to London in the Middle Ages. When the County of London was created in 1888 North Woolwich became an outpost of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich despite the neighbouring areas, the County Boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, remaining part of Essex. The anomaly only disappeared with the establishment of the County of Greater London on 1st April 1965, when North Woolwich was separated adminstratively from Woolwich and absorbed into the new London Borough of Newham.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Aug 16, 2023 22:47:11 GMT
Today there was a broken down "freight train" as it was put out on press, causing problems at Customs House suspending the line between AbbeyWood and Paddington. I am sure freight trains do not use the Customs House section anymore.
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Post by northlondon83 on Aug 17, 2023 4:06:27 GMT
The North Woolwich Goods Yard site, which was used by the Crossrail project as a construction site for the North Woolwich Portal, is to become a housing development. The railway reached North Woolwich in 1847, and as well as a passenger station there was a large goods yard, taking advantage of the riverside location. However by 1963 the goods yard was only handing coal traffic and acting as carriage sidings, and the yard closed in 1970. The original passenger terminus building still stands. It was replaced by a new station building in 1979 when the North Woolwich-Stratford shuttle was upgraded and extended to Camden Town; this building was subsequently demolished when the site was cleared by Crossrail. Having become part of the North London Line, passenger services between Stratford and North Woolwich ceased in December 2006 after the arrival of the DLR at King George V the previous year. Parts of the route have since been used by Crossrail itself (including a refurbished Silvertown Tunnel), and by the DLR route between Stratford and Canning Town which opened in 2011. The original building was a local railway museum for a time and is now owned by a church. The church also owns the land on which the railway line into the station platforms was laid; this land apparently cannot be built on as it is directly over the Elizabeth Line. It is a shame though that it could not have been used to provide a new linear park for the area. North Woolwich was an historical anomaly; although on the Essex side of the river, it was in the historical County of Kent and was part of the Parish of Woolwich. This arrangement is thought to date back to the reign of William I (William The Conqueror) who rewarded his followers by granting and redistributing land in order to consolidate his own power. Foremost amongst these was Hamo, Steward to the King and Sheriff of Kent, who is shown in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding land on both sides of the river at Woolwich. It is thought that by holding both lands as a single Manor, he would have control of the tax revenues from the ferry crossing, and possible military and political advantages especially given the importance of the sea-river approach to London in the Middle Ages. When the County of London was created in 1888 North Woolwich became an outpost of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich despite the neighbouring areas, the County Boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, remaining part of Essex. The anomaly only disappeared with the establishment of the County of Greater London on 1st April 1965, when North Woolwich was separated adminstratively from Woolwich and absorbed into the new London Borough of Newham. The Elizabeth line runs through North Woolwich and if it continued beyond Abbey Wood it would most likely reach Kent.
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Post by wirewiper on Aug 17, 2023 8:40:55 GMT
Today there was a broken down "freight train" as it was put out on press, causing problems at Customs House suspending the line between AbbeyWood and Paddington. I am sure freight trains do not use the Customs House section anymore. It was most likely an engineering train, the reporter probably saw a locomotive with a load of wagons and assumed it was a freight train. We all know that the standard of reporting on transport matters in the media (with a few honourable exceptions) is dire.
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Post by WH241 on Aug 17, 2023 8:48:21 GMT
Today there was a broken down "freight train" as it was put out on press, causing problems at Customs House suspending the line between AbbeyWood and Paddington. I am sure freight trains do not use the Customs House section anymore. Going off topic here but loosely related. Back in the 90s I used to occasionally see freight trains heading towards North Woolwich but could never understand where they went? I assume they might have headed to the North Woolwich area to stand and then head back towards Stratford? No sure why they would have done this.
Going back to the disruption yesterday. Couldn't trains turn around at Canary Wharf?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 17, 2023 10:36:09 GMT
It was most likely an engineering train, the reporter probably saw a locomotive with a load of wagons and assumed it was a freight train. It was a single track maintenance machine from Plumstead depot. Going back to the disruption yesterday. Couldn't trains turn around at Canary Wharf? There aren’t any reversing facilities at Canary Wharf.
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