mrfs42
71E25683904T 172E6538094T
Big Hair Day
Posts: 5,922
|
Post by mrfs42 on Jun 11, 2008 19:15:34 GMT
All to do with where the appropriate gaps are in the service; it's the sort of question that has no hard and fast answers.
|
|
|
|
Post by astock5000 on Jun 11, 2008 19:19:25 GMT
I don't think it is likely that you would do either anyway, because if the train running the shuttle broke down, it would be in the way.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2008 19:03:34 GMT
Wouldn't they send a double ended unit from Neasden? Yes!! |
|
|
|
Post by superteacher on Jun 15, 2008 22:39:02 GMT
Slightly off topic, but one of the A stock trains in the pictures posted earlier is displaying a "Shadwell" destination. Is this because the train was running in service to Shadwell, detraining and then going over the St Mary's curve? I know that there were no reversing facilities at Shadwell when the line closed, and I don't think there ever were.
|
|
|
|
Post by Harsig on Jun 16, 2008 12:21:37 GMT
Having come slightly late to this thread, I would suggest that the reason the single ended unit was at Rickmansworth was for a turning trip, i.e. to turn the train round to face the other way.
Typically this would occur when eight car trains are reformed in Neasden Depot for maintenance requirements and the depot finds itself left with two single ended units facing the same way round. By sending one of the units on a Neasden - Rickmansworth - Watford - Neasden trip, it is turned round and can now be coupled to the other single ended unit to make up an additional eight car train.
|
|
