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Post by coyote on Apr 24, 2013 19:02:07 GMT
With some slightly hidden platform signals and one or two facing crossovers...  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2013 22:49:35 GMT
Think I seen this one before aint it Putney Bridge?
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Post by nickf on Apr 25, 2013 5:05:48 GMT
It would seem to be a District loco, so that would fit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 7:05:54 GMT
Think I seen this one before aint it Putney Bridge? Yep. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Apr 25, 2013 7:10:19 GMT
I think the cabin is the wrong side of the line for Putney Bridge with the EP semaphores *unless* it is after July 1910.
I suggest Hammersmith but the geography is wrong, and it doesn't seem to fit what diagrams I have from the MT6 files for the Acton Lane Junction - Galena Road widening - insofar as the existing plans are shewn. Doesn't fit Parsons Green either.
Curious.
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Post by phillw48 on Apr 25, 2013 8:25:33 GMT
A possible clue is what looks like another signal box (and line?) on the extreme right.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Apr 25, 2013 8:54:41 GMT
I tend to agree with Putney Bridge.
Although not clear, the destination plate appears to show "Wimbledon".
Through Wimbledon services started in June 1889 and electric services in 1905/06, i'm not sure when the WB platform raft element was contructed.
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Post by mrfs42 on Apr 25, 2013 9:34:49 GMT
Doesn't match up with a 1907 diagram I have of Putney Bridge. <shrug> puzzling.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Apr 25, 2013 10:04:31 GMT
oh! Try Hounslow (Town?)
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Post by nickf on Apr 25, 2013 10:16:58 GMT
I know little about the history of the Metropolitan District Railway, but according to Wiki (OK, OK...I know!) the District's lines were all electrified in 1905. This is the link to the main page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Railway#Electrification.2C_1900.E2.80.931906And this is the quote lifted from it: Electric services Electric services began on 13 June 1905 between Hounslow and South Acton, using the line from Mill Hill Park to South Acton for passenger service for the first time. Hounslow Town station was reopened. Trains reversed at the station before continuing to Hounslow Barracks using a new single track curve.[60] On 1 July 1905 electrics began running from Ealing to Whitechapel and on the same day the Metropolitan and District railways both introduced electric units on the inner circle until a Metropolitan multiple unit overturned the positive current rail on the District Railway. Investigation showed an incompatibility between the way the shoe-gear was mounted on the Met trains and the District Railway track and Met trains were withdrawn from the District lines. After modification the Met returned and electrics took over on 24 September, reducing the travel time around the circle from seventy to fifty minutes.[61][62] By September, after withdrawing services over the unelectrified East London Line and the LT&SR east of East Ham, the District were running electric services on all remaining routes.[63] From December 1905 the L&NWR service was hauled by electric locomotives from Mansion House to Earl's Court where a L&NWR steam locomotive took over.[64] So this photo has to be pre 1905 if it is of the District...does that make sense? |
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Post by coyote on Apr 25, 2013 10:37:37 GMT
Putney Bridge, 1902, with a train from Mansion House arriving. From a 1961 railway magazine that also includes 3 pages on the new shunters panel and program machines at Parsons Green.
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Post by mrfs42 on Apr 25, 2013 11:42:02 GMT
Therefore of the old mechanical cabin, which closed in September 1905. Looks like there was some layout rationalisation when the EP frame came in as the EP layout had trailing crossovers either end of the platform.
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Post by bassmike on Apr 25, 2013 14:06:40 GMT
also before the down line was diverted over the external viaduct and the origional line became the centre bay
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Post by coyote on Apr 25, 2013 16:53:01 GMT
And from a very similar time  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 19:46:24 GMT
Going back to Putney Bridge, my notes say the third track was operational from 24/4/1910.
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