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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:48:24 GMT
Morning All, I have recently added a few more London Midland Region pictures to my Flickr site. Not of great interest to members of this Forum perhaps, but there are some taken at Verney Junction, the one time northernmost outpost of the Met. This is the first one; clicking on it will enlarge it and take you to the others :  R1257. Sign at Verney Junction. January,1964. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr Hope that they are of interest. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 19:03:20 GMT
Thanks for posting. Very interesting photos.
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Post by castlebar on Jun 26, 2012 19:18:50 GMT
Ditto. +1
Brilliant
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Post by Fahad on Jun 26, 2012 20:00:05 GMT
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Post by geriatrix on Jun 26, 2012 20:24:20 GMT
Terrific, thanks
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 26, 2012 22:22:28 GMT
Looks like the seat behind the cab, if I remember my last ride on that type of DMU (c20yrs ago Llanwrst - Blaenau). |
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Post by redsetter on Jun 27, 2012 17:34:44 GMT
i don't think I've seen pictures like those of verney junction,quite rare.
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Post by metrailway on Jun 27, 2012 21:39:38 GMT
Since the sign states Metropolitan Line and not Metropolitan Railway, I guess the sign was put up during the short period between 1933 and 1936?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 21:56:15 GMT
Looks like the seat behind the cab, if I remember my last ride on that type of DMU (c20yrs ago Llanwrst - Blaenau). Indeed - that was the advantage of the earlier type of DMU. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 21:59:44 GMT
Since the sign states Metropolitan Line and not Metropolitan Railway, I guess the sign was put up during the short period between 1933 and 1936? I wonder whether anyone managed to preserve it? |
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Post by yerkes on Jul 3, 2012 11:43:42 GMT
Very interesting photos - thanks.
I stopped by the site of the station a couple of years back. Depressingly overgrown and little trace of the original, although the platforms were largely in situ.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2012 16:29:14 GMT
Very much appreciated, 45669!
Loved them all!
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Post by redsetter on Jul 5, 2012 10:43:32 GMT
Looks like the seat behind the cab, if I remember my last ride on that type of DMU (c20yrs ago Llanwrst - Blaenau). Indeed - that was the advantage of the earlier type of DMU. there's a good view from this picture on the last day of the wealdstone to stanmore village at belmont www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/belmont/index40.shtml |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 16:25:13 GMT
By then it was just Harrow & W to Belmont (passenger service to Stanmore Village went in the early 1950s). |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 17:30:47 GMT
By then it was just Harrow & W to Belmont (passenger service to Stanmore Village went in the early 1950s). The Park Royal DMU used for the last service still exists on the Helston Railway in Cornwall My partner has and still does work on the site of the former Belmont station. XF |
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Post by metman on Jul 5, 2012 18:39:17 GMT
Yes the health centre and car park. My in-laws house backs onto the disused trackbed. Many I belmont wish the line still ran!
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Post by redsetter on Jul 5, 2012 20:36:43 GMT
i remember when young playing on the old platform when visiting my cousins' many years ago around 1975.it was known as the old rattler locally.my relations still live in kenton lane nearby. theres a few photos of the site at the link at the bottom www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/belmont/index.shtml |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 20:23:49 GMT
And today we learn the line, although not the station, is to be reopened as an electrified route. Who'd have thought!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 22:37:13 GMT
Sorry to keep this off topic - Verney - but I was taken on the last Belmont train by my father - being only 7 it was the first of many lasts! Next one being RLH's on 230. The dye was cast!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2012 8:43:05 GMT
Superb pictures. Thanks Ron.
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