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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2010 19:12:21 GMT
Travelling on the New Cross branch of the ELL the other day, I note the old depot that housed the A Stock still has a few rusty yerkes-type tracks just outside it.
The depot itself has largely gone, but a few other traces of it remain - such as the small staff pickup-platform just outside New Cross itself. Seeing these remnants of the old ELL gave me a very strange feeling as we traveled past - a mix of nostalgia and melancholy at an era that has gone for good. It's strange to think, for example, that the staff pickup point will never again .. pickup staff or serve any function at all. It just remains as an odd anachronism.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 7:34:19 GMT
.... and at Whitechapel, signal plate B9 was still there last Thursday (south end of NB platform).
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 12:30:37 GMT
.... and at Whitechapel, signal plate B9 was still there last Thursday (south end of NB platform). Shades of the Class 501's on Croxley Green branch  Xerces Fobe |
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Post by 21146 on May 19, 2010 14:03:40 GMT
Rotherhithe has an LU "Train Operator Information" whiteboard on the SB platform. LOROL have drivers of course, not "operators".
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Post by metman on May 19, 2010 16:33:42 GMT
I was going to mention about the depot. Gutted that New Cross Depot was levelled! What's going to be done with the site?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 17:34:18 GMT
Its a little bit on the small side and 'self contained' to be of any use. I bet it'll just be left to become overgrown. It was sad to see the old shed had been demolished.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 17:53:30 GMT
When the line was closed in December 2007, I believe there were two schools of thought. One was to use the site for outstabling trains, should the new depot have insufficient space (now highly unlikely!) and the other was for it to "return to nature".
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 22:37:26 GMT
When the ELL was operated by LU, the road bridge under the line by New Cross depot (Edward Street, S.E.14) was often hit by over-height lorries - i.e. a "bridge bash". I wonder that if these happen in the future, whether the New Cross branch will shut down when it (they) happen, as NRs attitude to bridge bashes are often different to LUs.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2010 9:42:18 GMT
Never realised there were so many 'ghosts' of the old LUL-era ELL still around ...
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Post by londonboy on May 21, 2010 11:56:43 GMT
The Tunnel Lighting on the old LUL section is Original too
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Post by Chris M on May 28, 2010 13:30:47 GMT
The Tunnel Lighting on the old LUL section is Original too As are the tunnel telephone wires in the Thames Tunnel |
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