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Post by A60stock on Nov 9, 2014 13:26:52 GMT
found a good video of interest
taken in 1998
One question i wanted to ask is that the final two clips of the steam train running along the a stock, the a stock on both occasions did not stop at northwood, now am i right in thinking that it was a fast to amersham running on the slow lines?
If this is the case, why send the steam train at the same time a fast is supposed to be running! This seems to have happened on both occasions!
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Post by metman on Nov 9, 2014 16:38:59 GMT
I think you will find that this may have been one of the few paths in the timetable that was available. The steam specials were using platform 2 at harrow and hence had to use the fast lines. As the steam service was non stop to Amersham it would have been reasonable to assume that with the A stock stopping at moor park the steam service would have cleared Watford South junction before the Amersham A stock service arrived at the junction.
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Post by Harsig on Nov 9, 2014 17:10:02 GMT
One question i wanted to ask is that the final two clips of the steam train running along the a stock, the a stock on both occasions did not stop at northwood, now am i right in thinking that it was a fast to amersham running on the slow lines? If this is the case, why send the steam train at the same time a fast is supposed to be running! This seems to have happened on both occasions! It was quite deliberately timetabled like this. This was at a time when two steam trains ran, shuttling between Watford and Amersham for most of the day. In previous years the morning run from Harrow of the two trains was synchronised so that they ran parallel with each other between Harrow and Watford South Junction, and this proved very popular. In the year of the video above there was a restriction which prevented steam locomotives operating over the local lines (weak bridge at Pinner if memory serves correctly) and so parallel running was not an option. Instead it was arranged for a fast Amersham service to run parallel with each of the two northbound steam trains between Harrow and Moor Park, which was deemed to be better than nothing. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 9, 2014 23:17:26 GMT
If this is the case, why send the steam train at the same time a fast is supposed to be running! This seems to have happened on both occasions! Filming the steam train? |
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