Uxbridge branch specials

Some years ago, as detailed on this forum, a Class 25 was trialled on the branch. The idea was that they would be acquired from BR for p/way work but they were knackered and BR wanted too many £££ for them.

That'd be very interesting, are there any Gauging issues on the branch, I understood that the trackbed has been raised over the years to cater for the little blue trains.

Guilty as charged Dave! 8 years man and boy...I need to escape!!

Referring to a wildly out of date Appendix 11 to the Rule Book, everything is cleared on the Met north of Baker Street. I'm not sure why theyre running, but its deff not passenger, so I can only assume theyre going to Ruislip depot for some reason.

Quite right adw, the consequence of a straight carriage being forced round a curve is that the ends and centre of the carriage will overhang more than on straight track. As track radius decreases and curvature increases centre throw and end throw get worse. Centre throw being dependent on the distance between bogie centres will overhang on the inside of curve and end throw being dependent on car length overhangs on the outside.

To my knowledge, civils work to the structure gauge diagrams which there are only two generic types for sub-surface and tube stock.

Perhaps they're testing for the vastly over rumoured possibility of the District reclaiming the route from Ealing Common to Uxbridge.

I got a (lucky) shot of some C Stock at Ruislip 0n 17March07:

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It was the same day that engineers trains were runing from the northern end of the Piccadilly to Ruislip, so quite an eventful day.

Cheers! It's easy to get to, literally turn left out of the station up some stairs and you're on the bridge. The good thing about Ruislip is the old signalbox (but not in use).