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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2005 10:49:32 GMT
When were the freight lifts at Harrow-on-the-Hill taken out of use?
And what was their primary use?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2005 11:03:10 GMT
And what was their primary use? To lift freight?? Don't forget that the Met thought it was a Main Line Railway, and carried frieght and parcels. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2005 13:19:18 GMT
And what was their primary use? To lift freight?? Don't forget that the Met thought it was a Main Line Railway, and carried frieght and parcels. I know that...... I was simply asking what sort of freight they were used for... |
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Post by russe on Sept 8, 2005 14:49:12 GMT
Coal, I would imagine.
Russ
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Post by Harsig on Sept 8, 2005 19:03:46 GMT
Coal, I would imagine. Russ You know I can't quite work out whether or not that comment was tongue in cheek. The lifts at Harrow would have been for Parcel and postal traffic. Anything more substantial would have been dealt with in the goods yard. |
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Post by q8 on Sept 9, 2005 15:33:02 GMT
Weren't those lifts used regular for ticket hampers when the TSO was at Harrow-On-The-Hill?
EDIT : As a matter of fact as the station was not rebuilt until LTPB times I suspect that that was their original purpose.
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Post by DWS on Sept 9, 2005 18:46:36 GMT
Weren't those lifts used regular for ticket hampers when the TSO was at Harrow-On-The-Hill? EDIT : As a matter of fact as the station was not rebuilt until LTPB times I suspect that that was their original purpose. The Ticket Sorting Office at Harrow-on-Hill was in the former Parcels Office, which is the Building along side Platform 1 |
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Post by russe on Sept 9, 2005 21:02:54 GMT
Sorry guys - ignore my coal suggestion - I assumed OneKEA's original query concerned freight lifts in the goods yard. I didn't know you were talking about the station platforms! (The correct terminology for which would be 'goods lift', I think.)
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Post by q8 on Sept 10, 2005 1:01:42 GMT
The Ticket Sorting Office at Harrow-on-Hill was in the former Parcels Office, which is the Building along side Platform 1
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Ah Thanks. But were the lifts there before the station was rebuilt?
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Post by Harsig on Sept 10, 2005 22:15:01 GMT
The Ticket Sorting Office at Harrow-on-Hill was in the former Parcels Office, which is the Building along side Platform 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ah Thanks. But were the lifts there before the station was rebuilt? I've often wondered this myself. I've always suspected that they were because they only serve platforms 1,2,3 & 4. One lift serves platform 1/2, the other serves 3/4. Prior to the rebuilding of 1948 there were only four platforms, the current numbers 2,3,4&5. Trains to and from Marylebone (i.e. the long distance services that may very well have conveyed postal and parcels traffic, would have called at what are now platforms 2 & 3, both of which are served by one or other of the lifts. They would never have called at platform 5 and this platform is not served by the lifts. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2005 22:47:53 GMT
There is a fuse box/junction box in that subway labelled 'GPO Lifts'. For the benefit of those much younger than me (many of you probably!) that is 'General Post Office lifts'. Curiouser and curiouser....  |
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Post by q8 on Sept 11, 2005 2:23:19 GMT
Oh of course !!!
The GPO sorting office is (or was) nearby. That may explain the lifts as trains from the midlands pre 1966 would have carried mails on some services.
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Post by Harsig on Sept 11, 2005 12:19:10 GMT
I should also have mentioned that the subway to which the lifts link the platforms extends beyond the confines of the platforms at each end. On one side of the line was the old Ticket Sorting Office/Parcels Office. On the opposite side of the line is the old GPO sorting office and it certainly looks as though both these buildings were linked directly to the subway.
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Post by DWS on Sept 11, 2005 16:12:51 GMT
I should also have mentioned that the subway to which the lifts link the platforms extends beyond the confines of the platforms at each end. On one side of the line was the old Ticket Sorting Office/Parcels Office. On the opposite side of the line is the old GPO sorting office and it certainly looks as though both these buildings were linked directly to the subway. When I was a Box Boy (ROA) at Harrow-on-Hill in 1964, the subway was linked to both the Parcels Office and the Post Office Sorting Office. Postmen used to load mail onto the Main Line Trains and London Transport staff took the parcels to and from the Parcels Office. Also Road Lorries driven by LT staff use to pick up and deliver the parcels to Business and Residential customers in the area  |
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