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Post by tubeprune on Dec 3, 2008 17:07:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2008 17:36:15 GMT
Iwould have a go but all I get is the homepage!
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Post by Chris M on Dec 3, 2008 17:47:58 GMT
I can't help on the what and where, but tinyurl.com/6xarbh should (hopefully) allow others more knowledgeable to have a go. |
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Post by slugabed on Dec 3, 2008 19:06:20 GMT
I can't help on the what and where, but tinyurl.com/6xarbh should (hopefully) allow others more knowledgeable to have a go. Points that strike me about this picture: The "other" track is electified,with rails each side of the running rails,no centre rail. The stock is Full-size ie not Tube loading gauge. The train is in the open,and it's not Drayton Park Stration. The stock appears to be pre-WW1 Each of these points rule out the most obvious answers.I don't think it's a train of London Transprt or its predecessors.My instinct is that it's from a provincial or overseas line,though it is possible it's from the L&NWR Watfrd electrics? |
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Post by 21146 on Dec 3, 2008 19:39:31 GMT
This is the experimental electric train used on the MDR in 1900 between Earls Court and High St Ken with +ve and -ve conductor rails sited outside the running rails. Location, eastbound, somewhere near today's Triangle Sidings?
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Post by metman on Dec 3, 2008 20:10:46 GMT
Yup, must be. It clearly shows the 1898 trailers that were absorbed into the Metropolitan Railways Ashbury/Bogie stock fleet. What a great photo!
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 3, 2008 20:10:46 GMT
This is the experimental electric train used on the MDR in 1900 between Earls Court and High St Ken with +ve and -ve conductor rails sited outside the running rails. Location, eastbound, somewhere near today's Triangle Sidings? That's what I thought. The train is standing in a siding where a row of pillars now supports the development over Triangle sidings. The cameraman was standing roughly where 37 rd now is. |
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 3, 2008 20:26:53 GMT
I can't help on the what and where, but tinyurl.com/6xarbh should (hopefully) allow others more knowledgeable to have a go. I don't understand why the link didn't work and how you got it to work. Can you explain it for me? - thanks. |
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Post by Colin on Dec 3, 2008 20:44:33 GMT
You used the email & IM link code! You should have copied the 'direct' code and put that between the [ur l][/ url] blocks - someone needs to visit the tutorial area I suspect!   ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Dmitri on Dec 3, 2008 22:25:26 GMT
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 4, 2008 14:13:29 GMT
You used the email & IM link code! You should have copied the 'direct' code and put that between the [ur l][/ url] blocks - someone needs to visit the tutorial area I suspect! ;D ;D ;D I did and it still didn't work. I think there was something odd about the code - see message from dmitri. |
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 4, 2008 14:15:16 GMT
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 4, 2008 14:16:33 GMT
Yup, must be. It clearly shows the 1898 trailers that were absorbed into the Metropolitan Railways Ashbury/Bogie stock fleet. What a great photo! It will go in the UN article, editor permitting. |
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Post by programmes1 on Dec 4, 2008 19:11:04 GMT
You can see the pit at the back of the train.
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 5, 2008 0:58:31 GMT
OK then, we've established the location, but how the flip did it get in there?
Was there a suitable light engine pottering aroud High Street Ken or Earls Court to stuff it in the non-electrified siding?
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Post by CSLR on Dec 5, 2008 7:48:09 GMT
OK then, we've established the location, but how the flip did it get in there?
Was there a suitable light engine pottering aroud High Street Ken or Earls Court to stuff it in the non-electrified siding? I suspect that the electric rails were just fakes to disguise the fact that the train was really operated by clockwork. |
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 5, 2008 12:37:52 GMT
OK then, we've established the location, but how the flip did it get in there? Was there a suitable light engine pottering aroud High Street Ken or Earls Court to stuff it in the non-electrified siding? I have another picture of the other end of the siding with the current rails in place. It only needed them for a short distance at the exit end of the siding. |
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 5, 2008 12:38:28 GMT
OK then, we've established the location, but how the flip did it get in there?
Was there a suitable light engine pottering aroud High Street Ken or Earls Court to stuff it in the non-electrified siding? I suspect that the electric rails were just fakes to disguise the fact that the train was really operated by clockwork. You're winding us up surely? |
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 5, 2008 12:41:47 GMT
I suspect that the electric rails were just fakes to disguise the fact that the train was really operated by clockwork. You're winding us up surely? *wipes coffee off laptop screen* ;D |
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