Recent content by Tubeman

Great, many thanks! I'd marked them as closed on the atlas... I can now re-open them! Test trains only, I presume... no other use? Roughly how often does it get used?

It's faster and more reliable than ever

And this unit is special because?... I managed half the line for 3 years and I never knew of any 'special' units!

Me again. A couple of weeks ago I passed Linford Street Junction for the first time since October (when I started this thread), and although I was looking out for it, I couldn't see the same break in the running rails than I saw back then. If anything, the rails of the curve looked a...

I'd be very interested to hear whether you make it, or unceremoniously hit the deck! As I said before, I could only see the rail removed from the 'up', so maybe the 'down' is being used bi-directionally (although it isn't signalled for this). Please let me know, and if it is definitely...

The Canonbury Curve was opened by the GNR 14.12.1874 and first saw passenger trains 18.01.1875. The last timetabled passenger service was 08.11.1976, after when these trains were effectively diverted down the GNCR at Finsbury Park. The curve remained double until 1988 when it had to be singled...

Hi All I started a thread about this a while back, but it's been time-locked I enquired about usage of this feature (Linford Street Junction to Nine Elms Junction, the former Eurostar passenger curve from the LCDR Chatham Main to LSWR Windsor lines) since diversion of Eurostar to St...

Fascinating photos... I only recently clocked that the shed had been abandoned (last summer I think), when I saw that a fence had been erected across the throat. Does anyone know when it last saw use / was officially decommissioned? date needed for London Railway Atlas... Thanks!

Thanks... Glad the rolling stock isn't going to waste... aside from the ancient blue & grey coaches, the sets look pretty smart... and it's nice to see loco-hauled trains.

Hi All Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but I've tried the 'search' function to no avail. I've just started working at Wembley Park depot and have seen former W&S trains on several occasions running up and down the Chiltern Line during the past 2 weeks... Now as far as I'm aware, the...

I was invited in for interview yesterday (Waterloo driver) at very short notice and turned them down... I've decided not to leave LU now anyway. Just shows how disorganised SWT recruitment are and how bad their forecasting must be. In February I had to call them after passing assessments /...

Thanks... so is this just to keep the assets usable like London Underground 'rusty rail' moves?

Passed Nine Elms Junction on Saturday gone and could see that the rails of both roads of the Stewarts Lane Viaduct (the chord built for Eurostar trains to access Waterloo) were nice and shiny whereas they've usually been pretty dull and / or rusty since 2007. Does anyone know what trains are...

As good a place to ask as any I guess... anyone got any plans of the future Thameslink underpass south of London Bridge, utilising the abandoned Bricklayers Arms route under the viaduct? Particularly interested in proposed track layout.

Yes. Becomes quite tricky too, I'd recommend would-be candidates to try practising this sort of thing. Starts easy enough, but ends up with decimals, fractions with different denominators, a mixture of both... You get so out of practice doing mental arithmetic thanks to calculators...