Queensway Crossover

The Queensway crossover was reinstated (and recommissioned i think in the last few years - no doubt somone will be able to say exactly when)

In the dim & distant past there was a sdg to the east of Queensway Station.

I was at Hainault for 14years in the 70's & 80's and I don't think Queensway Sdg was ever used for reversing service trains.Apparently there was a tight bend in the sdg,they did put a test train in there once,when they got it back to Ruislip they found one of the tail light ruby glasses in the middle smashed.

I gather the move is still pretty tight. A friend of mine who drives on the central was reversed at Queensway recentish (i think whilst Queensway was closed - so train detrained at Lancaster Gate) He said the train front looked as if it was going to scrape the tunnel wall .. but of course it did clear it.

Probably not the facilities at Queensway Station to support relieving crews,DMT's etc.

Also, at Marble Arch, the traffic flows can be segregated i.e. the terminating train will be detrained on the westbound before moving into the siding and picking up again on the eastbound. They could step back crews at Queensway, but the problem is that the terminating westbound would run direct into the eastbound, meaning that there would be confusion in trying to detrain passengers while at the same time, eastbound passengers are trying to board! Much easier to get them all out at Marble Arch, where platform staff can direct confused passengers to alternative routes.
Doesn't sound like Queensway is used much at all . . . and it's very unusual becasue it's a facing crossover as opposed to the much more common trailing variety. And oddly, there is no scheduled rusty rail move over the crossover in the current WTT - Bethnal Green crossover is also not scheduled for a move. All other emergency reversing points are covered including Holborn, Liverpool Street, Northolt crossover - there are even passenger trains booked to run through the sidings at Debden and Newbury Park.