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Post by Oracle on Oct 2, 2006 13:38:51 GMT
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Post by Christopher J on Oct 2, 2006 14:06:46 GMT
Hi David,
I'm getting We're sorry, but the page you requested cannot be found. Please check your spelling and try again. from the URL above, it looks as if it's a broken link!
CJ
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Post by Tubeboy on Oct 2, 2006 16:16:53 GMT
Second that Oracle.
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Post by Oracle on Oct 2, 2006 17:25:55 GMT
Not broken link, just me being a pratt as usual and not getting the properties for, and saving the whole of the address!
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Post by Christopher J on Oct 2, 2006 17:34:39 GMT
Acton Town.
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Post by Oracle on Oct 2, 2006 17:46:02 GMT
Correct! But ....what is so odd about it, for the Star Prize???
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Post by Tubeboy on Oct 2, 2006 18:11:09 GMT
Its on the old platform, 5? The one where the "Tea run" [South Acton shuttle] used to run to/from?
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Post by agoodcuppa on Oct 2, 2006 18:25:13 GMT
That train's about to leave the eastbound local running wrong road into the depot.
The former South Acton shuttle platform is behind the adverts.
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Post by Oracle on Oct 2, 2006 19:06:14 GMT
Top Prize to that man! I seriously queried whether any train, let alone this veteran, could go up the slope! Never saw it before or since . TP may remember that the very last CO/CP Stock train in ordinary service should have terminated at Ealing Bdy. However special sanction was granted for it to continue to Ealing Common, where we had to alight. Then she went to the depot with a blaze of detonators as was customary at the time.
AGC what's your address and I'll mail you a copy of my bus book?
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Post by Phil on Oct 3, 2006 11:00:20 GMT
Oracle, I presume you do realise that site belongs to our very own Solidbond........
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Post by Oracle on Oct 3, 2006 12:17:20 GMT
Yes, that's why I have quoted the full address because you get the "window" with details etc. I do hope that this is correct etiquette. Thanks Solidbond for some marvellous info and photos..I have been looking to see if I am in there! May I also please say that there are some wonderful photos on the site and urge everyone to peruse it: mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/LUArchive/home.htmlAll of my slides from the period were donated to LURS including those of the Richmond branch resignalling around 1981, when the semaphores went. |
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 3, 2006 13:19:47 GMT
I seriously queried whether any train, let alone this veteran, could go up the slope! Never saw it before or since . TP may remember that the very last CO/CP Stock train in ordinary service should have terminated at Ealing Bdy. However special sanction was granted for it to continue to Ealing Common, where we had to alight. Then she went to the depot with a blaze of detonators as was customary at the time.
I do not remember that but it was normal for trains to stable at Ealing Common depot from the east end. They would run into the WB fast platform and tip out, then cross over the EB fast into the depot. I think the gradient is 1 in 25. All DR Stock used to do it. The connection was taken out when Acton Town went over to programme machines I think about 1965. |
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