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Post by antharro on Jun 30, 2010 13:07:02 GMT
Why are the platforms at Hounslow Central so high, given that it's a Picc. line only station? Is this a hangback from District days?
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Post by Oracle on Jun 30, 2010 14:28:07 GMT
I would say an emphatic 'yes'. But I may be wrong! It seems that although the Lampton Road and Kingsley Road bridges (the latter at Hounslow East) were rebuilt to tube gauge to save money, no thought was given to the platforms. I assume that the ones at Central are subsurface height and not compromise?
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Post by harlesden on Jun 30, 2010 15:12:35 GMT
Perhaps the fact that it is an island platform contributed to the decision not to modify it for tube stock. The modification would surely have been rather costly. In this picture I cannot really see any problem with the platform height in comparison to the train.
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Post by Oracle on Jun 30, 2010 17:14:45 GMT
OTT: is the crossover used at all these days except by a rusty rail job? I have only been over it once, in D Stock.
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Post by londonstuff on Jun 30, 2010 19:20:45 GMT
OTT: is the crossover used at all these days except by a rusty rail job? I have only been over it once, in D Stock. Undergroundgal mentioned on her blog [/u]a few months ago that she used it during a signal failure at Heathrow for the first time: I also finally got to reverse at Hounslow Central a while back; there had been a recurring signal failure earlier in the day and the service never quite recovered, and I ended up being short-tripped there to try to get me back on time - much to the annoyance of all the passengers, although I thankfully heard very little about it, having made it perfectly clear in my PA that I had tried to find out when the next Heathrow was but my radio calls had gone unanswered, and that the best thing for them to do was to get off the train promptly and allow me to change ends and get the train out of the way so that if there was one behind, I wouldn’t be holding it up!
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Post by hobbayne on Jul 1, 2010 9:56:08 GMT
There is also a ready to proceed plunger at wrong road starter WT 3 which informs the signalman that the driver is in position. I have never used it, it always has cleared by itself.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2010 13:56:08 GMT
There is also a ready to proceed plunger at wrong road starter WT 3 which informs the signalman that the driver is in position. I have never used it, it always has cleared by itself. That's if Auto Reverse is being used, if you arrive and the 'reverse' lightbox is illuminated then that means that Auto Reverse is the mode in use. It's normally done in Push Button though as Auto Reverse puts the eastbound signals back to danger and it's easier to control who goes first!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2010 19:39:38 GMT
OTT: is the crossover used at all these days except by a rusty rail job? I have only been over it once, in D Stock. Yes, it gets used as and when necessary, but no where near as often as it used to (pre T5), which even then was not that often. It got used on 24th June at around midday to reverse a late running T4 service.
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Post by v52gc on Jul 30, 2010 20:31:13 GMT
The platform height at Hounslow Central isn't that bad when compared to North Ealing! Especially the E/B
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Post by martinkeegan on Nov 30, 2010 17:48:46 GMT
Hounslow Central was never called that, it was firstly Named " Heston Hounslow" and the original line came from Osterley then into Hounslow Town (now Hounslow East) trains then reversed and went into Heston Hounslow single platform and then onto Hounslow Barracks (Hounslow West) which is now a car park but the diverted platforms are now underground and snakes its way to Heathrow
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Post by slugabed on Nov 30, 2010 19:03:38 GMT
Hounslow Town was initially the name of the Terminus whose site is now occupied by the Bus Station. When this closed in 1909,the station now known as Hounslow East took the name.taking its present name in 1925. Hounslow Central was known as Heston & Hounslow until 1925,and Hounslow Barracks became Hounslow West also in 1925.
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Post by Oracle on Nov 30, 2010 20:26:08 GMT
The line was originally built by the Hounslow & Metropolitan Railway ...I have yet to find the company badge before it merged into the MDR.
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