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Post by Hutch on Mar 29, 2009 20:26:39 GMT
Before Chiltern Court was completed in 1930, Baker Street was featured in a Railway Magazine article from December 1927. The ground floor of the Court was already in situ ready for the rest of the floors. On page 437, there is a new siding laid out from Platform 1, through a demolished wall in connection with the hotel construction. If this is a construction siding, it puzzles me that it is electrified. Is this the ‘Hotel Siding’ that Natalee was asking about sometime back? Does some trace of it still exist? The loco siding on the opposite side of the layout is also shown. |
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Post by slugabed on Mar 29, 2009 21:58:55 GMT
Before Chiltern Court was completed in 1930, Baker Street was featured in a Railway Magazine article from December 1927. The ground floor of the Court was already in situ ready for the rest of the floors. On page 437, there is a new siding laid out from Platform 1, through a demolished wall in connection with the hotel construction. If this is a construction siding, it puzzles me that it is electrified. Is this the ‘Hotel Siding’ that Natalee was asking about sometime back? Does some trace of it still exist? The loco siding on the opposite side of the layout is also shown. Yes,it is one and the same siding,I suspect.Laid in for the construction of Chiltern Court,it went on to be used for deliveries of coal to the block of flats above. It might have been operationally "useful" to have it electrified? Natterlee's post states that the last "revenue" use of this siding was in 1961. I may be misremembering again,but think it got a mention in Betjeman's "Metroland" TV programme. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 29, 2009 22:27:16 GMT
It is a bit late at night to go chasing through the WTTs in detail (so this is from memory), but until the demise of the siding trains to and from Chiltern Court were labelled as Chiltern Court Coal in the WTTs, usually about noonish from Neasden heading South. I think the paths were last published in WTT 189 Met No 2 (12/6/61) and the winter reissue WTT 193 Met No 2 (11/9/61) has the SB path off Neasden blank with 1 12 39 left at the galley foot. The return working is still shewn in the To form box, but of course points to a blank column.
WTTs 191/193 were the first without electric locomotives.
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Post by Ben on Mar 30, 2009 15:15:14 GMT
19 trains left towards the city between 8:30 and 9:00am How many trains leave in that period now?
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Post by Harsig on Mar 30, 2009 16:55:31 GMT
19 trains left towards the city between 8:30 and 9:00am How many trains leave in that period now? 15. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2009 18:39:00 GMT
The siding as in use upto 1961 was slightly shorter and finally moved closer to platform 1 and only accomdated usually 2 wagons. It is possible to see wher it connected to the platform as there is still a twist in the platform. Nice to see the platform end signals again not cluttered by all the platform end furniture.
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