Stabling In Lillie Bridge Depot

The Possession at Triangle has been taken

It was taken in December cant remember the exact date but the track fuses for the sidings have been all removed. The night is was done the LC knew nothing about it only the SM knew it has caused alot of confussion but I believe the main concern was getting Lillie Bridge to operate correctly

This was certainly a large part of the jigsaw, things were being signed off with days to go in order to make Lillie Bridge ready. There was even a contingency TTN prepared (for the week of 13th to 17th Dec) to stable all of the LB trains back to ECMDT & TRISDGS if LB wasn't ready!

Another factor I believe was the amount of shunting resource available for LB on the fleet side. Every train starting and stabling at LBDT requires a shunter to see it out/in.

I think TRISDGS, was taken as a posession 'light' if you know what I mean, fuses pulled but plug 'em back in if needed (not sure how complicated a task this actually is, but I don't believe any work is to start just yet until fleet are 100% happy with the whole set up at LBDT).

That the sidings have been removed from the operational railway and the booked engineering works can now take place.

Errmm....Lillie Bridge has existed in it's current state for decades!!

The issue with the C stocks would have been identified during the gauging runs which took place late in 2010 - therefore it was most likely too late to have anything done prior to the depot being used for stabling passenger stock from 12th December, and it was (as already suggested) most probably deemed that the issue would not stand in the way of the depot being used for stabling passenger stock.

I'm not entirely sure what the current situation is now as the posts above seem to indicate two different versions of what has or hasn't happened. In any case though, if either action has been taken Triangle is effectively sliced off from the railway and would not be available at short notice.

The full possession proper would mean the points giving access to Triangle sidings are scotched, clipped and padlocked out of use - there is no going back on that as work will have started within the sidings and they are effectively non existent as far as the railway is concerned.

If it's still only the "light possession" suggested by shedcompnodosh, then it may be possible to re-instate Triangle sidings with a fair degree of notice (technical staff would be required as would access to the track, etc, etc).

As stated by Colin the layout in Lillie Bridge has existed for many years.

In the work that was involved in upgrading the depot to bring it up to current standards much work has taken place renewing some areas of track, removing redundant track, points etc. and upgrading traction current rails and supplies (and much, much more).

The specific issue with 10 Top is that there is an old weighbridge which is of course made up of large areas of metal plates over which currenr rails cannot be laid - hence (at least in part) why there are larger than normal gaps in the traction current rails.

The problem here (I think!) was largely the old issue of 'not seeing the wood for the trees' and though this may seem a bit lame I can assure you it is true; I spent a great deal of time in the depot whilst work was ongoing and believe me it was only very late in the day that it was 'seen' and raised as a problem.

Sorry if I am asking an obvious question, but do I take it that W/TT 10
with Lillie bridge stabling, has not come into effect yet ?

If however it has, how many roads remain for engineering train stabling ?

Well to add more, I noticed this evening that there was an engineers train on 33 road and in the distance (I was on the main going to & from Earls Court & Gloucester road - the distance being towards High Street/entrance to 33-36 roads) was a road/rail JCB type machine.

So the works in Triangle have now begun.....