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Post by Admin Team on Mar 22, 2005 12:31:07 GMT
This is an appeal for help!
Have any of my colleagues (particularly those in the siganl grades I guess?) got diagrams for how the area used to look prior to the current layout?
I'm particularly after those that include the old, long disappeared connections and sidings.
I've got a piece I want to post up on 'my site' and I think illustrations would help readers visualise it. f you can help, they can be emailed to me via the link to the left.
On a more general note, if you have such diagrams for the whole line I'd be grateful.........
Thanks in advance!
Dave
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2005 12:56:27 GMT
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Post by Admin Team on Mar 22, 2005 14:02:55 GMT
FANTASTIC!!
I had a feeling I'd seen that somewhere else not too long ago, but couldn't for the life of me remember where!
Hoperfully Harsig will spot this and add more to my collection!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2005 14:39:38 GMT
Nice to know I could be of help - if you want to know where I got the diagram from, PM either Harsig or me.
I look forward to the piece ;D
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Post by Admin Team on Mar 22, 2005 14:53:31 GMT
Nice to know I could be of help - if you want to know where I got the diagram from, PM either Harsig or me. I look forward to the piece ;D Now posted - go and have a read. PM on it's way...... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2005 15:20:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2005 16:17:32 GMT
Must admit, I LOVE reading the stories about how life used to be on the Underground!
Long may they continue to be added to the site!
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Post by Admin Team on Mar 22, 2005 16:31:22 GMT
Must admit, I LOVE reading the stories about how life used to be on the Underground! Long may they continue to be added to the site! Definitely so, and as long as they keep coming in, I'll be using them. On a slightly serious note though, some of these stories help put much of what we encounter today into context, and make things a little clearer too. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2005 17:37:27 GMT
it certanily looks different from then until now
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Post by igelkotten on Mar 23, 2005 0:45:47 GMT
I can only agree with Alan L -the accounts of Underground Life are excellent!
/Igelkotten
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Post by q8 on Mar 26, 2005 17:27:48 GMT
Hallo Folks.
I have been speaking to my old driver and he tells me that coal/goods trains used to go not only to West Kensington but to High Street Kensington too. He explained that they used to go into the far left most platform at high street and then shunt back up a neck the was beside and slighty above the eastbound road from Earls Court. This neck went into a yard that is now built over. I have tried to visualise where it was and the best I can do is say that as you leave the tunnel from Triangle sidings into High Street it was immediately beside/above you to your left. Don't know if there are any signalling diagrams that will illustrate this though.
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Post by Harsig on Mar 26, 2005 17:47:53 GMT
Hallo Folks. I have been speaking to my old driver and he tells me that coal/goods trains used to go not only to West Kensington but to High Street Kensington too. He explained that they used to go into the far left most platform at high street and then shunt back up a neck the was beside and slighty above the eastbound road from Earls Court. This neck went into a yard that is now built over. I have tried to visualise where it was and the best I can do is say that as you leave the tunnel from Triangle sidings into High Street it was immediately beside/above you to your left. Don't know if there are any signalling diagrams that will illustrate this though. See the Cromwell Road Cabin Diagram Thread. districtdave.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=Signals&action=display&thread=1111590532The diagram referred to there shows the connection to the yard at High St Ken. There was also an article about the trains to this yard in the 'London Railway Record' for October 2004 which included a number of photgraphs taken from the brake van of the train while en-route from Brent to High St Ken. The photos start at Acton Lane West junction and include a view taken from in the loop at Turnham Green and also one at High St Ken looking south showing the shunt signal clear from platform to yard. |
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