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I was intending to drag up an old thread in regards to the Euston Downside Carriage Shed and associated Up Empty Carriage Line - but will add the post here as it is appropriate. I came across this website [link below] specifically look at the last 2 pictures uploaded very recently by 'Els2007'...

Passing Rugby on a Pendolino a few months ago - seems there is one new OHLE mast (a sort of end section) on that line, well, the beginning of it leaving the Rugby station area in the westerly direction.

At Duddeston Station itself - the area where redundant OHLE masts can be found is the site of the former Wagon Repair Shops. Seen on this picture from 1987, this is on the left-hand-side going out of Birmingham: http://www.abrail.co.uk/Images/VauxhallWS1987d.jpg Now demolished, on the...

Do many stations have Ladies Lounges? Coventry certainly does: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sjp/COV/images/photos/800/o1550-0000060.jpg

Two important WCML junction stations - Nuneaton & Rugby have done well in terms of platforms. Dunno if the Up Fast platform at Rugby (No.4 I think) sees much use? - the rest are well used though. Historically Rugby had up to six bay platforms. At Nuneaton, since the removal of fast stopping...

Does Ditton between Runcorn and Liverpool qualify? Outside my area - but I remember catching a sight of a disused station on a YouTube clip between those stations.

I confess I didn't have all the case details to hand - was just reading from the press. Nothing can excuse his actions and to plead guilty was very much the right decision it would seem. I thinking more with the length of sentence, 15 months when I first heard it seemed rather long, not that he...

Perhaps Clarke has a point there (a Tory demanding less people in prison!). I have a untested theory: harsher more brutal prisons = harsher more brutal people. The UK has one of the highest rates of imprisonment anywhere in Europe. The actual number isn't much different from Germany - but they...

Suppose the Ricoh Arena should get a mention - the Coventry to Nuneaton line runs right past it. Who knows, a train might stop at a new station there in the future.

I caught a clip of a National Express coach driver instructing his passengers to wear the seatbelts provided, on that coach travel programme on BBC3/4 recently. Thought whaaaat, how could that possibly be enforced! Surely when the driver gets moving, you could take it off again! Had thought some...

Has the Sunday/Monday 13-14 March Sleeper taken the Coventry - Aston - Stafford route diversion? Heard a train dash past sometime before 1am.

Only did the Berks & Hants twice (ages ago in the mid 90's) and that is fairly featureless. On the WCML there are some quite large stations and a significant number of sidings, yards and depots to offer up some interest to the traveller, especially on the southern sections.

I travelled to Euston on Wednesday [from Coventry] looks like the Blisworth area - specifically the location of the former Blisworth station has seen a reduction in electrified track. The wider span OHLE masts (across 2 tracks) and at least one 'm' shaped lattice structure suggests some OHLE has...

Watching those YouTube clips of the Woodhead route - depressing to think most of the infrastructure has gone, an electrified railway too. With that, the relatively low percentage of electrified track in this country. Even in 2011 two major long-distance routes are not fully wired up - what on...

Found this on fotopic - I do believe this is the once electrified Wolverhampton steel terminal line. The line remains but the OHLE has been removed: http://western-champions-pics-online.fotopic.net/p55628832.html And staying in the W Mids - here is a picture of Proof House Junction in...

Link to a picture of the long closed Windsor Street Wharf Goods line in Aston, Birmingham. Clearly part electrified here, can't be too many pictures of this area showing the wired line/s: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1631819 Better pics: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1631965 and...

I can do that leaving Coventry this-coming Wednesday heading to Euston. Just look for 'Allard Way' & Willenhall on any street map, the line runs through this area. I find the WCML southern section (Rugby to London) quite interesting, but mainly looking at the railway infrastructure. Parts of...

I always under the impression that the M69 motorway overbridge over the WCML near Ansty would need widening (or some major civil engineering work would be required) to cater for 4 tracks at this point. There appears to be enough space to fit a 4th at track level otherwise.

See Greeny's post re. removed electrified lines in the Liverpool area. Tis relevant to this thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41447

The obvious one is the 'Woodhead route' From a book at home, in a bit more detail (I think is) OHLE section codes where known in brackets: Tinsley Marshalling Yard Sheffield [T] and Rotherwood Sidings, Darnall Depot [DL], Sheffield Victoria/Electric Lay-by Sidings [BR] and Wath [W] including...