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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread Electrical Control Rooms.
    I see, not very many ECRs seem to have gone over ROCs. Maybe only Romford at this point. Derby and Didcot started out life in in an ROC...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread Electrical Control Rooms.
    And here it is. A great watch, and the only images of the inside of Rugby ECR I've ever seen. Although I assume it became a lot more...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread Electrical Control Rooms.
    Did some googling and I think it's "Rugby District Electric Depot", built to support loco changes and possibly and EMU service at Rugby...
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    Yeah I feel Scotland is really acting like a huge pilot scheme for serious discontinuous operation. Core Valley Lines battery trains are...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    I see, that explains why at least one damper pair I've observed has been removed (Ditton TSC). I hadn't actually made any particular...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    The "report" link bottom left of any message is the only mechanism for this as far as I know
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread Electrical Control Rooms.
    Any chance of a screenshot, I don't think any of us can view this unless we apply to enter the group its from (not that the denied...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    I know what you mean! I've been slowly collecting all the insights across the forum on this topic and physically locating them into a...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    Can you (or anyone!) tell me a little more about them? What they do/what problem they addressed? Were they another part of WCRM that was...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    Oh right okay, so these things resting on podiums are actually nothing to do with the AT system? I've been seeing them all across the...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    Good point, I was just copying how the original map seemed to have labelled that TSC as Roade. But checking google earth, I can see an...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread Electrical Control Rooms.
    I've always been fond of the very analogue animation at the start of that video. Brief look at the inside of Willesden in that one too...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    On the topic of the original WCML system. I recently came across digitisations of the 1960 British Transport Commission Conference on...
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    GraphitProjekt replied to the thread WCML substations.
    Seems like Acton Lane was renewed in the 1990s unless the outdoor switchgear is just for the NLL (can't really tell from google earth)...
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    I think there can be situations where an unelectrified line has a certain gauge clearance and can theoretically support OLE, but if you...

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