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Post by Tomcakes on Mar 18, 2009 15:03:21 GMT
is it ever moved from there? Not off the single line. (I have a feeling that it may be moved on the single though.) Isn't it moved up and down every so often to keep the batteries working or something like that? ISTR it has been off to Northfields on occasion - e.g. when filming is taking place with the 38 stock on the branch.
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Post by metman on Mar 18, 2009 15:42:27 GMT
Hello, a Question to Aldwych and the Trains on the Aldwych Branch I read at the Book "Underground Train File" the 1935 Tube Stock runs from May 1954 until 1957, are all 3 Units or only 11010 on the Branch - and the Paint on the 1935 Tube Stock at the Aldwych branch, have the Trains the Cream Coloured around the Windows or Red! Thanks and Greetings Dennis I think all three units of 1935 stock went to the Aldwych branch. This would mean, one in service and two spare, probably kept at Northfields. The 35ts had cream pillars still in 1952 as there is a photo of a train at Loughton. However, the 1938 fleet only retained it's cream pillars until the early 50s so it would be fair to assume the 35ts lost its cream at a similar time. As we know, 11010 had a run-in with the buffers at Aldwych and had to be rebuilt with a similar look to the 1938 stock, it would have lost its cream paint on the repaint.
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Post by maxtube on Mar 18, 2009 17:17:26 GMT
The 1986 stock, I believe, was also tried on the Aldwych branch, prior to the Neasden derailment.
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Post by Ben on Mar 18, 2009 20:05:37 GMT
Indeed, as a four car set it was probably the longest train the branch has seen in passenger service. This was only as a special though; it was addressed in a video called 'Londons Lost Tube Stations'.
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Post by maxtube on Mar 18, 2009 20:54:05 GMT
Is this video still on sale, perhaps as a DVD?
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Post by abe on Mar 19, 2009 8:05:52 GMT
Indeed it was a special, run in collaboration with the LTM. There's a photo of it in The Aldwych Branch.
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Post by Tubeboy on Mar 19, 2009 9:34:17 GMT
Is this video still on sale, perhaps as a DVD? Not only is it on the DVD Ben mentioned, its also in their latest DVD "Tube trains all change", very good is it too. It shows the 3 car track recording unit too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2009 21:23:15 GMT
Was in London over the weekend and purchased the Aldwych Branch book. What an excellent read. It is amazing that a line so short has such a interesting history.
On another note has anybody seen the route maps at the bottom of the stairs at Covent Garden? Aldwych is alive and well according to it.
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Post by roythebus on Aug 4, 2009 17:11:29 GMT
Further to my previous comments here about the proposed Aldwych extension to Waterloo, I've now found my copy of the London Transport Act 1965 (some sad gits around aren't there?) which states:
Work no.3 Enlargement of the runing tunnels of the Aldwych Branch of the Piccadilly Railway commencing at the south end of the wstbound station tunnel of Holborn Station and terminating at a point under Kingsway 165 yards south-east of the said point of commencement in the running tunnels of the said branch line;
In the city of Westminster and the London borough of Lambeth_ Work no.4 A railway (1154yards in length) being an extension of the Aldwych Branch of the Piccadilly Line railway commencing in the city of Westminster at the south end of the Aldwych station tunnels, passing under the river, and terminating in the London borough of Lambeth at a point 145 yards south of the south end of the north-west abutment of the bridge carrying the British Railways Board Southern Region railway over York Road;
In the London borough of Lambeth-
Work no.5 A subway (85yards in legth) commencing by a junction with the existing subway leading to the Bakerloo Line railway ay Waterloo Underground station and terminating in arch number 249 under the British Railways Board Southern Region Railway at Waterloo Atation at a point 69 yards south-east of the north-west end of the said arch.
So it would seem the proposal was to enlarge the Holborn branch platform(s) and the Alwych tunnels, and extend the line to Waterloo. There are no plans with the booklets I have, so I can't comment how this would have affected the existing tunnel layout.
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