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Post by Chris M on Apr 15, 2007 8:24:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 9:15:43 GMT
awkward42 has a PM.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 9:32:21 GMT
I know where this is, because it's in my neck of the woods. I took a picture that shows both the bridge in the shot and where todays quiz was taken from. If you want to have your own guess, then DON'T click on this link which gives it away: flickr.com/photos/brapps/289808888/ |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 11:19:56 GMT
Where is the fourth rail? I did not think there was any tube lines which are third rail only?
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Post by setttt on Apr 15, 2007 11:39:52 GMT
Where is the fourth rail? I did not think there was any tube lines which are third rail only? Those are the Windsor Lines out of Waterloo - the LU connection being we're looking down at them from a District Line train north of East Putney station (Putney SWT is in the distance). |
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Post by Oracle on Apr 15, 2007 16:40:45 GMT
Point Pleasant Junction would be in the other direction. I wish I could find the official designations of the fast and slow Up/Down lines there. I have a particular interest in the area, and remember the connection down to the Up Fast/Main which was disconnected and the Down singled.
Good shot [from a Eastbound train]!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 19:13:33 GMT
Thanks Seth. Now I understand
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 20:45:45 GMT
Point Pleasant Junction would be in the other direction. I wish I could find the official designations of the fast and slow Up/Down lines there. I have a particular interest in the area, and remember the connection down to the Up Fast/Main which was disconnected and the Down singled. I believe it is (based on the photo above): DS, DF, UF, US. It should be noted though that the layout at Barnes Junction sometimes results in stoppers going via the fasts and non-stop services via the slows, and the mishmash beyond Clapham Junction is anybody's guess in terms of normal usage. |
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Post by Oracle on Apr 15, 2007 21:03:52 GMT
Thanks! The DF and UF were also used, and are used, when the main is blocked and they send Waterloo trains via Byfleet Junction and Addlestone Junction. Last year when I took the kids to Waterloo we came back via Clapham Junction and this poor old lady who had gotten on at Clapham found that she sailed past Putney where she wanted to get off! She had to go to Woking and then make her way back to Clapham the same way and then back again to Putney. The guard whom I informed did not seem to even consider advising the driver so that she could have been dropped off somewhere on th Windsor lines so that she could get a train back but there you are.
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Post by Chris M on Apr 16, 2007 8:54:33 GMT
AnswersWell done everyone, particularly JoinTheDots and TOK who both PMed me the right answer. To quote the latter of the two gentlemen "The photo is of the four-track Windsor Lines route to Barnes, Richmond and Hounslow, looking west into Putney mainline station from the District Line viaduct that runs between the southern abutment of Putney Rail Bridge and East Putney station. Judging from the closeness of the personnel railing I believe the photo was taken from an eastbound train." The photo is by TMBA, who didn't tell me whether it was from an eastbound or westbound train but who am I to disagree with TOK?! 
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