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Post by tube10 on Jul 3, 2007 19:08:34 GMT
How many branches is the district line divided to?
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Post by Oracle on Jul 3, 2007 19:19:36 GMT
I would be interested to know if Olympia is not a branch, although surely Wimbledon and Richmond are branches? I would be interested to see though whether it is considered that the "main line" is now to Wimbledon and the other westbound lines branches thereoff!
Where does that leave the line to High Street Ken for the D Stock and Edgware Road for the Wimblewares? Is the line to Edgware Road a "branch" or de facto seperate service?
Until October 1964 the District had the Hounslow branch as well. Amazingly for some time after the Picc took over the line completely there were still car diagrams that showed the line. Stickers were applied but they came off!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2007 9:51:04 GMT
How many branches is the district line divided to? Have you thought of looking at an Underground map? |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jul 4, 2007 14:49:50 GMT
How many branches is the district line divided to? Have you thought of looking at an Underground map? Excellent idea sir! However! Is the Olympia "branch" a branch? Is it more, a self-contained shuttle? [Thinks] |
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Post by signalfailure on Jul 4, 2007 15:50:16 GMT
Shuttle me thinks?
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Post by Ben on Jul 4, 2007 16:46:48 GMT
4, but historically 7.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jul 4, 2007 16:55:54 GMT
Windsor, Hounslow............and? Southend?
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Post by suncloud on Jul 4, 2007 17:10:00 GMT
South Acton
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Post by cetacean on Jul 4, 2007 17:16:28 GMT
Plus Uxbridge. Windsor is counting the Ealing branch twice.
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Post by Oracle on Jul 4, 2007 17:51:31 GMT
Actually there were two historical Hounslow branches! The Hounslow & Metropolitan Railway, later MDR and DR, initially ran to Hounslow Town as well as Hounslow Barracks, later Hounslow West.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jul 4, 2007 18:06:11 GMT
South Acton, I forgot! Is it a shuttle or branch though?  Yes, correct Oracle! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2007 18:22:56 GMT
The main line is Upminster to Ealing Broadway (even though there are no through trains for a fair chunk of the day). The rest are branches. I certainly consider Olympia a branch. Through trains do run to Olympia during disruption and there is a timetabled Olympia to Upminster departure in the late evening.
Also note Tube10 is based in Trinidad, admittedly access to a tube map is probably easier than accessing this forum, but none the less it has developed a running thread ;D
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Post by SE13 on Jul 4, 2007 18:45:46 GMT
Surely everything that is not the actual main run, and more a deviation would be classed as a branch? So technically everything from Earls Court W/B onwards is a sort of branch.
I see certain people coming along and clouting me rather heavily round the head, so I'll slip away quietly.....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2007 9:38:55 GMT
Also note Tube10 is based in Trinidad Sorry, I didn't notice that. |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jul 5, 2007 9:44:06 GMT
Maps are available to download/print off the TFL website.
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Post by Phil on Jul 5, 2007 19:28:42 GMT
Maps are available to download/print off the TFL website. .....................when it's not in one of its moods! |
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