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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 16:52:20 GMT
I remember back in the days when the olympia shuttle was shown on the LU Map as an intermitant green line as it only ran during exhibitions. Back in those days did it always run through to High street kensington, or did it ever use to reverse at eals court or run through to other destinations?
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Post by class411 on Mar 18, 2013 17:24:13 GMT
Deleted because it was wrong.
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Post by metman on Mar 18, 2013 18:48:42 GMT
Thankfully, common sense prevailed and the trains were extended to HSK. Reversing a train at Earls Ct on the X over would not have been easy!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 19:36:43 GMT
For a long time it reversed at Earl's Court. In the running line east of platform 2. Eastbound trains from platform 2 could bypass it via the parallel northernmost track.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Mar 18, 2013 20:04:02 GMT
It was usually always reversed at High Street Kensington except during early mornings and late evenings.
During the early-mid 80s C Stock provided the service to High Street. When the service was first provided all-day, the service was run from Edgware Road with C Stock.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2013 19:55:59 GMT
Was it possiblr to reverse at earls court without disrupting the rest of the District line?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2013 21:05:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2013 13:13:02 GMT
IIRC there was a reversing siding just East of Earl's Court - it's on I think one of Harsig's historic diagrams - which was used pre war by the LNWR/LMSR WLL service from Willesden Junction. Doubtless someone can say when it went: I would assume that is when the Olympia shuttle started going to HSK on a regular basis.
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Post by rail2210 on Mar 21, 2013 19:01:16 GMT
Was on the District line today, on the train I got on, the announcements were saying "this is a District line train to Olympia", but at the station the boards were saying "Earl's Court" so I don't know if it actually went to Olympia.
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Post by Phil on Mar 23, 2013 11:24:40 GMT
Was on the District line today, on the train I got on, the announcements were saying "this is a District line train to Olympia", but at the station the boards were saying "Earl's Court" so I don't know if it actually went to Olympia. Thursday? My son was at Olympia NR most of the day photographing some obscure stuff he needed. All day there were random D stocks coming in (8min, then 20min, then 14min, then 7min then 30min etc.) all the time he was there - they were all departing with Upminster or Barking destinations (the ones he saw anyway). Perhaps one of our District t/ops can tell us what sort of disruption caused KO to be used so much on Thursday - signalling on one of the branches? And yes, all the boards were saying 'no services to Olympia today'! |
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Post by rail2210 on Mar 23, 2013 16:32:23 GMT
Was on the District line today, on the train I got on, the announcements were saying "this is a District line train to Olympia", but at the station the boards were saying "Earl's Court" so I don't know if it actually went to Olympia. Thursday? My son was at Olympia NR most of the day photographing some obscure stuff he needed. All day there were random D stocks coming in (8min, then 20min, then 14min, then 7min then 30min etc.) all the time he was there - they were all departing with Upminster or Barking destinations (the ones he saw anyway). Perhaps one of our District t/ops can tell us what sort of disruption caused KO to be used so much on Thursday - signalling on one of the branches? And yes, all the boards were saying 'no services to Olympia today'! |
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Post by melikepie on Mar 23, 2013 16:37:52 GMT
National Rail do indeed served Kensington Olympia and have served them for the past number of years. They in fact own the station as well as the TOCs and Network Rail.
Regular NR services are both of the companies London Overground and Southern
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 23, 2013 16:53:13 GMT
melikepie - this isn't unfortunately quite right. The station is owned by Network Rail (there isn't any such organisation as "National Rail" - alas) but leased to a TOC, in this case, it will be LOROL as the successor to Silverlink etc. Southern will have a station access agreement as will LU and any other operator such as Steam Dreams who need to call. Network Rail own nearly every mainline station in the country (not Hatch End, St P, or Ebbsfleet) but run very few of them themselves. I know because, in a past existence, I signed the lease for every station on the network at the time of privatisation. [My right arm is considerably more developed than my left as a result]. GH
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Post by melikepie on Mar 23, 2013 17:03:28 GMT
Sorry for the mixup
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Post by Colin on Mar 24, 2013 5:50:35 GMT
Going back to last Thursday, there was a multiple signal failure at Plaistow during the morning peak.
Sending trains to Olympia was one of the many methods employed to recover the train service [which ended up almost 2 hours late in many cases!!).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2013 12:30:34 GMT
Going back to last Thursday, there was a multiple signal failure at Plaistow during the morning peak. Sending trains to Olympia was one of the many methods employed to recover the train service [which ended up almost 2 hours late in many cases!!). It was a broken trainstop on FC11 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 16:03:07 GMT
Maybe this should belong in the historical section, but I know earls court did act as a termini for steam services when the old outer circle service from Broad street was cut back from Mansion house. How did it cope with this without upsetting the service?
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 31, 2013 16:29:39 GMT
My 1910 Bradshaw shows only 2 tph at most (irregularly spaced) terminating at Earls Court from the Willesden direction; at some times of day, there was no service at all - probably not too much of a disruption?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2013 21:40:03 GMT
Would that have been the electric service from Willesden, or the stesm hauled from Broad street?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 8:37:37 GMT
In 1910 it would have been steam. Electric services Earl's Court to Willesden Junction commenced 1914-05-01.
Met electric services from the H&C to Addison Road (i.e. Olympia) commenced 1906-12(-03?)
1905-1908 LNWR 'Outer Circle' services changed locos at Earl's Court, with MDR electric locos working them on to Mansion House.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 10:16:38 GMT
Were there sidings in place to get steam locos out the way and stable electric locos?
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