Headshunt at Ickeham

Thats ruislip sidings used in the peak or when pics are running late and occaisionally met trains. Its quite close to ickenham, the reception road into ruislip depot is something like a mile long on the other side.

The Hillingdon terminators went in the early 90's I think, when they stopped stabling Picc trains in Uxbridge sidings. Now, I believe that 1 train does stable in Uxbridge sidings, but this is at the end of traffic, and terminates at Uxbridge.

I think it was quite a while ago now I know thats the reason the pic trains have hillingdon/uxbridge on the DMI in the city

Rayners has reversers all day. ruislips start about 6.55ish in the morning peak then finish just after and again for the late peak but often continue well on depending on the state of the service or for individual trains that are running late

i noticed the pic trains there at about 9:30 in the morning, im guessing they were going into the depot after the morning peak.

IIRC, isn't the Depot only for Central Line trains?

I knew that the engineer's trains and some p-way trains use Ruislip Depot, as well as regular maintenance and upkeep for the Central.

Ruislip is a huge depot, and was built large in anticipation of the Central line going out to Denham, and projected traffic growth on the branch. The first never happened, and the second never really came up to expectation. The depot only provides about 20 trains for Central line passenger service, although it does undertake much of the major maintenance of the stock.

Despite never really being used to full potential, the depot has come in useful for storing newly delivered stock. When the 1973 stock for the Picc was delivered, there were huge delays in getting it into service, and much of it was stored in Ruislip cepot.

Yeah but its never used 9a is the shunt into the siding and 9b is the colour light to go east-west. It is a colour light signal coming out but as its a shunt to get in from all directions this seems a bit pointless as you cant get punters in to get them out on a colour light.

Why was the crossover at ruislip station removed when the goods yard closed? It was after all electrified. And, perhaps more perversely, why does it still exist on the TfL local area maps as part of the trackwork?

On a few occasions in the last couple of years, there has been a tamper or engineers train working west of Ruislip Siding. This would come from the siding onto the e/b and reverse to the w/b using 9B. The return to Ruislip Depot has involved the shunt from the e/b to the sdg using 9A.

Also a number of years ago, there was a booked Met rusty rail at start of traffic, from Uxbridge Sdgs (E) to Uxbridge via the e/b to w/b reverse and a corresponding return at end of traffic using 9B for both moves. Someone else will have to tell you which WTT that was as I can't find it.