Post by mrfs42 on Jun 3, 2007 17:17:15 GMT
Things have finally quietened off at work after an incredibly hectic bank holiday/half-term (who'd work for a tourist railway eh? 
)
Anyway I can now get back to my lunchtime sit-down and snooze. This lunchtime's reading material was the Easter 1952 TTN for the Picc.
What caught my eye was a pair of spare paths on Easter Monday: one off Cockfosters to Down St and another off Northfields to the KX loop.
Most of the main TTs I've read from that era have a train berthing interpeak right down to the end of Down St. siding and other trains reversing ahead of the stabled train. So far so understandable.
However I've not seen a booked move for a stable on the KX loop before - were these common during Bank Holiday weekends - especially if there was a fitba' match at Arsenal? Obviously the likelihood of a transfer from the Northern was practically zilch on a Bank Holiday Monday. Was the KX loop regularly used during this era to hold a spare train?
)Anyway I can now get back to my lunchtime sit-down and snooze. This lunchtime's reading material was the Easter 1952 TTN for the Picc.
What caught my eye was a pair of spare paths on Easter Monday: one off Cockfosters to Down St and another off Northfields to the KX loop.
Most of the main TTs I've read from that era have a train berthing interpeak right down to the end of Down St. siding and other trains reversing ahead of the stabled train. So far so understandable.
However I've not seen a booked move for a stable on the KX loop before - were these common during Bank Holiday weekends - especially if there was a fitba' match at Arsenal? Obviously the likelihood of a transfer from the Northern was practically zilch on a Bank Holiday Monday. Was the KX loop regularly used during this era to hold a spare train?
