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Post by Colin D on Aug 30, 2016 2:26:13 GMT
Question: Identify these four locations, the link between them and the odd one out. Location A:  (click for a larger version) Location B:  (click for a larger version) Location C:  (click for a larger version) Location D:  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 30, 2016 6:32:50 GMT
The second one looks like the view from the southbound platform at South Acton. The car in the background is on the level crossing taking Bollo Lane over the de-electrified spur to Kew Bridge.
The third one looks like Hanger Lane Junctipn, views from a weatbound District Line train.
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Post by Jerome H on Aug 30, 2016 12:59:36 GMT
D feels somewhere on the east London line south of the river, but since I'm no good with junction names, is in the new cross/new cross gare junction?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 14:02:27 GMT
D looks like Dalston Junction.
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Post by t697 on Aug 30, 2016 19:44:07 GMT
East Putney for picture C?
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Post by Colin D on Aug 31, 2016 2:42:07 GMT
Still need location A, the link and the odd one out. Location B: South Acton Junction - view from southbound platform at South Acton station [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) Location C: East Putney Junction - rusty trailing crossover from eastbound train [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) Location D: Dalston Junction - platforms 2-3 crossover [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by t697 on Aug 31, 2016 5:05:49 GMT
Harrow North junction for A?
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Post by gantshill on Aug 31, 2016 6:47:28 GMT
Is the link that the locations are also connections between different types of electrification? Eg third rail and fourth rail or fourth rail and unelectrified. So the odd one out will be where there is no change to the electrification system.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 31, 2016 7:51:40 GMT
Are they points where Network Rail and TfL infrastructures meet? In which case the odd one out is South Acton and picture A is probably the point near Harrow on the Hill where Chiltern trains leave the Met tracks for their own tracks into Marylebone.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 31, 2016 8:00:38 GMT
The link isn't to do with changes in electrification or ownership, South Acton isn't the odd one out and A isn't in Harrow.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 31, 2016 8:01:09 GMT
Location A  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by marri260 on Aug 31, 2016 10:05:43 GMT
Watford South Junction for A?
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Post by blackhorsesteve on Aug 31, 2016 10:32:39 GMT
I assume the flags have something to do with the link?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Aug 31, 2016 10:58:28 GMT
A - There are very few diamond crossings on the 4-rail network, and even fewer on a four-track section. I think it's just south of Watford South Junction - the layout is almost symmetrical there but I think it's taken from a southbound train on the slow lines.
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Post by Chris M on Aug 31, 2016 17:50:25 GMT
Location A: Watford South Junction - pointwork from ex-Watford train [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) I assume the flags have something to do with the link? No. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 9:52:55 GMT
On past form the link between the junctions is that someone's cousin's mother-in-law visited all the sites - except the odd-one-out.
All of the junctions used to but no longer provide a passenger service. Watford is the odd-one-out because there are plans that may involve reconnection of passenger services (through trains from St Albans Abbey)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Sept 2, 2016 11:15:49 GMT
All of the junctions used to but no longer provide a passenger service. Watford is the odd-one-out because there are plans that may involve reconnection of passenger services (through trains from St Albans Abbey) I think you are confusing Watford South Junction on the Metropolitan Line (near Moor Park, at the point where Watford trains branch of the line towards Rickmansworth) with Watford Junction on the West Coast Main Line. Both limbs of the junction see a regular passenger service. The SWT service on the eastern limb of the junction at East Putney is very limited, but does exist. There is no passenger service on one of the limbs at South Acton, which lost its service to Kew Bridge sometime around WW1, although it briefly supported a weird Colchester- Basingstoke service for a few years in the last decade or so. Dalston Junction is no longer a junction at all, as the east curve no longer exists, so I think that's the odd one out. |
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Post by Chris M on Sept 2, 2016 18:27:14 GMT
norbitonflyer gets the points - these are all junctions except Dalston Junction, which only used to be.
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