White City platform allocation

Also www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/wood_lane/index.shtml for several pages of fantastic pictures featuring the now utterly obliterated Wood Lane station.

A classic confusion of Cause and Effect!

Perhaps a look in the working timetable may help?

How?

Like this? - it took several attempts to get the nested quotes right!








More confusion! I don't think the working timetable sheds any light on the reason for right hand running at White City which is, I believe, what 413 (4CAP?) is referring to.
The East Acton flyover and the subterrenaean "rollover" (or diveunder) at Shepherds Bush are not "crossovers" in the strict sense of a set of points allowing a train to switch from the eastbound to the westbound or vice versa, like this www.shutterstock.com/pic-621485/stock-photo-railway-track-cross-over.html. There are such crossovers at White City to allow trains from either direction to reverse there, as is indeed required by the working timetable.

I am no expert but the WTT would show the frequency of the train service which might have an impact on using platforms and crossover's or does not not happen.

More confusion! I don't think the working timetable sheds any light on the reason for right hand running at White City which is, I believe, what 413 (4CAP?) is referring to.
The East Acton flyover and the subterrenaean "rollover" (or diveunder) at Shepherds Bush are not "crossovers" in the strict sense of a set of points allowing a train to switch from the eastbound to the westbound or vice versa, like this www.shutterstock.com/pic-621485/stock-photo-railway-track-cross-over.html. There are such crossovers at White City to allow trains from either direction to reverse there, as is indeed required by the working timetable. [/quote]


That is correct and I think most people know why the platforms are the way they are well at least the reason for the change over in the direction of tracks. If that was what the OP meant he did not make himself clear well not to me that's why I mentioned the WTT.

The westbound bend out of Shepherds Bush, is still the sharpest ben d on the U/G

Well you must be in a minority as there is plenty in print if you know where to look if you put yourself out.

"Most people" and "people who read this forum" are rather different groups. If you are puzzled, this is a good forum to ask the question - someone will be more than happy to explain. And if you already know the answer, no-one is compelling you to read this thread.

I am not the puzzled one there are however some who may be but I won't tell them.

As I'm the only person who said anything about joking, I presume you are asking me, and I can promise you the 'joking' comment was not directed at you.

OK.

The answer to my question appears to be that the current track layout is an artefact of a much earlier layout.

Specifically that an extremely tight bend was introduced that meant that it was not possible to fit another track 'inside' that bend, which would have been necessary to maintain normal running.

Another factor (I'm assuming) that no one has mentioned is that the original Wood Lane station was too close to Wood Lane to do the obvious thing and run the new track to the left (looking westbound) and so the rather messy current solution was devised. I suspect there was an enormous amount of humming and ha-ing and scratching of heads with many other possibilities considered before it was finally adopted.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who has contributed. From various thread here I've learned a lot about several things over the past three days that have been puzzling me for ages.

Dmitri thanks again this will help class413.