roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on May 12, 2016 22:23:28 GMT
Maybe a thread for the "historic" section, there used to be certain district trains that missed out certain stations and were advertised as "non-stop". ISTR some were non-stop at Gloucester Road and South Kensington, others missed out stations east of Whitechapel. when did these services finish and any idea of the non-stopping pattern of service?
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 12, 2016 23:04:16 GMT
when did these services finish and any idea of the non-stopping pattern of service? says the 1960s, and that South Kensington, Gloucester Road, and West Brompton were often skipped. This picture of a Blitz-damaged Q38 car shows the "not stopping" board, displaying "West Ham" and clearly has space for a dozen stations - I assume each possible station had its own slot, rather than that some trains skipped that many. The picture is captioned 7/9/40, and the train as having been stabled in the bay at Plaistow. As well as the Q38, a badly damaged Q23 (upside down) can be seen. Brian Hardy records only five Q stock cars being scrapped during the war: one Q23, one Q27 and three Q38s, one of which (013167) was scrapped on the same date as the two older cars. (Parts of it were used to repair a damaged P stock car). The cars in the picture are therefore probably Q23 No 4146 and Q38 No 013167. |
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Post by programmes1 on May 13, 2016 14:30:33 GMT
Maybe a thread for the "historic" section, there used to be certain district trains that missed out certain stations and were advertised as "non-stop". ISTR some were non-stop at Gloucester Road and South Kensington, others missed out stations east of Whitechapel. when did these services finish and any idea of the non-stopping pattern of service? I would have said that MRFS is the person to answer but he has not been on for quite a while. |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 15:26:40 GMT
Towards the end, Non-stopping was Gloucester Road and South Kensington (Ealing trains), Barons Court and West Kensington (Richmond trains) and Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park by Hounslow trains.
From 10/10/60 Edgware Road – Putney Bridge service extended to Wimbledon in peak periods, non-stopping West Brompton, East Putney and Wimbledon Park in each direction. City trains no longer non-stop on the Wimbledon branch.
From 12/6/61 all trains stopped at East Putney and Wimbledon Park. Withdrawal of non-stopping at West Brompton in peak flow direction. West Brompton non-stopping reverts to City trains.
From 18/6/62 all trains stop at West Brompton.
All of this was in the peaks.
However, the non-stopping had been whittled down over the years. From 7/10/46 this had become -
Non-stopping was Gloucester Road and South Kensington (Ealing trains), Barons Court and West Kensington (Richmond trains) and Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park by Hounslow trains. Wimbledon trains non-stopped West Brompton.
Prior to 7/10/46, non-stopping was very complex peak and off-peak and I haven't been able to work out any pattern at all. Presumably there was a good reason for such diverse non-stopping (which includes what we would regard as busy stations - e.g.Hammersmith, Earl's Court) but I haven't been able to work out how it was all calculated.
In the late-1920s, one District Railway timetable compiler managed to schedule his train home from St. James's Park to Chiswick Park as non-stop from Sloane Square to Chiswick Park, always managing to get a seat on this service!
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