cso
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Post by cso on Jan 14, 2019 19:57:10 GMT
Does anyone know why the area between Ickenham Station and Austin Lane Roadbridge, on the London bound side, has had all the trees removed?
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Post by t697 on Jan 14, 2019 20:39:16 GMT
Probably to help reduce bad adhesion due to leaf fall in the autumn. I noticed this recently and it's certainly a pretty drastic amount of felling and clearance. Should do for a few years.
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Post by goldenarrow on Jan 14, 2019 21:22:17 GMT
Yes as t697 says, the section of track had notoriously bad adhesion not helped on the Eastbound with a rail section gap followed by a fairly steep climb up towards Autins Lane, Piccadilly line trains really struggled. Funnily enough it was usually the S stock that had issues on the Westbound, that decent coupled with damp conditions in the leaf fall season often lead to an intervention from the trains onboard computer akin to a wheel slip protection during wet weather. |
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Ben
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Post by Ben on Jan 14, 2019 21:35:59 GMT
Given the age of some of the trees it probably hasn't been as barren for many decades! Hopefully the arboricultural people can find out a way of working with nature by planting a few new trees and shrubs of more appropriate character to lineside requirements.
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Post by manorborn on Jan 19, 2019 10:36:57 GMT
They've been cutting trees all along the line to Rayners Lane. I think pretty well all the trees were planted by the Met in the first place - the earliest photos show the trains running through bare fields with just the odd hedge to break up the landscape. I live just north of Ruislip Manor and look out on to trees - when the house was built this was a large empty field.
The railway giveth and the railway taketh away.
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