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Post by jimjams on Jun 21, 2012 23:16:21 GMT
Hi all you old, sorry, senior expert members.
I can remember (just) as a kid in the fifties living near Woodside Park station watching most mornings a Barnet bound Tank engine goods train delivering coal to the sidings just north of the station (now a housing estate), can any members remember when this service ceased.
jimjams.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2012 11:16:58 GMT
I have the dates at home - PM me and I´ll sort them out for you, when I get back at the end of next week.
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Post by nickf on Jun 22, 2012 14:56:28 GMT
I'm by no means an expert in this area, but quoting from 'Forgotten Railways - Chilterns and Cotswolds' by R. Davies and M.D. Grant, page 28: "Closure of services to Mill Hill East and High Barnet was from 1 October 1962 and the goods yards at East Finchley, Finchley Central, Woodside Park, Totteridge and High Barnet were converted into car parks for the Underground."
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Post by jimjams on Jul 7, 2012 7:30:29 GMT
Many thanks reganorak and nickf, further question where whose the coal collected from and the locomotive stabled and serviced?
I guess it joined the Northern Line at East Finchley when it surfaced.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 10:15:59 GMT
Don't know where the coal was collected from but the locos were Eastern Region locos, serviced by them. It would be more correct to say that these trains "entered the [LT] system" at East Finchley rather than "surfaced" - it was the Northern Line trains that did that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 18:29:45 GMT
Don't know where the coal was collected from but the locos were Eastern Region locos, serviced by them. It would be more correct to say that these trains "entered the [LT] system" at East Finchley rather than "surfaced" - it was the Northern Line trains that did that. PM me if you want more dates. Presumably the locos came from Finsbury Park via Crouch End and Highgate, unless they were put on a lorry somewhere... |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 19:54:45 GMT
Hang on a mo. Why would the locos come by road and to where?
They were ER locos, part of the ER fleet that worked between the ER and LT and, among other things, ER goods trains not only on the Northern heights but throughout the ER. The Northern heights goods trains started from Highbury Vale, having come from other places beforehand and presumably the various wagons were married up into the correct consist there.
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Post by peterc on Jul 11, 2012 19:58:34 GMT
I think that jimjams may not be aware that this was originally a main line branch from Finsbury Park.
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