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Post by davebleicher on Jan 6, 2007 20:18:12 GMT
Last time I used Highgate Station, which was just before Christmas, I noticed a couple of guys in hi-vis jackets pottering about in the grounds of the (abandonded) high level station. I also noticed some recently installed cable trunking crossing the old trackbed. Rather than taking the most direct route, the trunking crosses the trackbed on a small bridge. Does anyone know what's going on here? Is Highgate depot being extended southbound to the old station?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 20:29:50 GMT
It's probably work to do with modernising the station... I doubt it there would be any plan to extend the trackbed to the station site, since it wouldn't really serve a purpose, and also because it's fairly easy to access the High level Platforms from various points around the site... for obvious reasons, i will refrain from stating them...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 21:40:37 GMT
this is to do, I assume, with the line from the depot being used as a test track. It is being equipped with the Jubilee's ATO system I think as some 1996s are being put there for ATO testing. have a look about the Jubbly ATO at this thread |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 21:49:29 GMT
this is to do, I assume, with the line from the depot being used as a test track. It is being equipped with the Jubilee's ATO system I think as some 1996s are being put there for ATO testing. have a look about the Jubbly ATO at this thread But as the test track ends North of the tunnel between Highgate HL and Highgate Depot, then this doesn't answer why the wiring is using an overbridge. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 21:59:30 GMT
maybe they are going to re-build the whole of the Northern Heights  and then he ended the fantasy  ;D |
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Post by towerman on Jan 6, 2007 22:15:45 GMT
Could it be to do with the new Northern SCC which will be at Highgate?
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Post by Oracle on Jan 6, 2007 22:22:51 GMT
What's an SCC for those ignorant souls like me please? Signalling Control Centre?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 22:50:11 GMT
ah yes, it could be. Good thinking towerman. They have been planning it for a while and there has been loads of consultation and complaints with/from residents.
Service Control Centre. All the signalling and control will be from there.
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 15, 2007 15:38:51 GMT
Apart from the new SCC [being built in a bunker! It is nice I suppose the L/C being underground like his pax] it could be, as Artery has said to do with the modernisation of Highgate Station which has started.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 21:59:54 GMT
Yeah, it's in need of a lil' bit of work on the southbound platform... nice damp patches in places...
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Post by trc666 on Jan 15, 2007 22:54:48 GMT
If a single track test line was built up to the platform, maybe with a bit of work done to the platform area, it could be used as an emergency terminus should the tunnels be out of action.
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Post by mrjrt on Jan 15, 2007 23:24:38 GMT
If a single track test line was built up to the platform, maybe with a bit of work done to the platform area, it could be used as an emergency terminus should the tunnels be out of action. As much as I'd like to see any part of the route in use rather than derelict, surely terminus facilities can be more than adequately provided at East Finchley. The chances of the low level tunnels being out of commission concurrently with the line up to Highgate low-level itself being operational is...somewhat remote. Unless I've somehow missed your point entirely...which is likely I think as a single track terminus seems fairly....awkward, so I doubt one of the regulars would suggest it  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2007 17:40:28 GMT
and also the fact that there's a depot that would be passed to get there.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2007 20:54:02 GMT
I think I know what is being said here, build another tunnel and a line to Highgate HL station. With turn backs at East Finchley and Archway I think that this would be a hideous waste of money. There is a group called the Muswell Hill Metro Group trying to reopen the line from Alexandra Palace to Finsbury Park via Highgate which sounds more sensible to me. Why don't they campaign for an extension from Finsbury Park, through Canonbury west tunnel and then join up with the East London line when it gets extended to Dalston (How do I copyright that idea ;D ) Should this be a new thread? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2007 21:02:08 GMT
It would be nice to see part, if not all of the planned Northern Heights reopened... just like many rail closures of the 50's and 60's, plans of reopening have been bandered about for donkeys, public meetings called..... it just drags on...
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 17, 2007 21:22:28 GMT
Despite Stanstead airport, Braintree-Bishops Stortford still hasnt happened.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2007 0:31:56 GMT
It would be nice to see part, if not all of the planned Northern Heights reopened... just like many rail closures of the 50's and 60's, plans of reopening have been bandered about for donkeys, public meetings called..... it just drags on... One reason for which is - I can't remember whether I've 'fessed up to this before or not  - that, a long time ago, before some of you were even thought of, I was a Haringey councillor and tried to build some Council houses on what is now the Parkland walk. I failed, but someone did build a school or something on or near the site of Cranley Gardens station, which could be awkward for any Light Transit scheme. A bigger problem still, I suspect, is the lack of capacity south of Finsbury Park, tho' I daresay someone's fantasizing about running trams down past the Nag's Head to King's Cross via York Way, to link up with Uncle Ken's existing cunning plan to use trams to cause gridlock in the Euston Road  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2007 14:05:25 GMT
It would be nice to see part, if not all of the planned Northern Heights reopened... just like many rail closures of the 50's and 60's, plans of reopening have been bandered about for donkeys, public meetings called..... it just drags on... One reason for which is - I can't remember whether I've 'fessed up to this before or not - that, a long time ago, before some of you were even thought of, I was a Haringey councillor and tried to build some Council houses on what is now the Parkland walk. I failed, but someone did build a school or something on or near the site of Cranley Gardens station, which could be awkward for any Light Transit scheme. A bigger problem still, I suspect, is the lack of capacity south of Finsbury Park, tho' I daresay someone's fantasizing about running trams down past the Nag's Head to King's Cross via York Way, to link up with Uncle Ken's existing cunning plan to use trams to cause gridlock in the Euston Road As I said in my previous post, what about them running up and down 'down slow 2' into Finsbury Park and reopening the downside island platform. From there they can (and are able to at the moment) run via the down line to Canonbury tunnel and then to Highbury & Islington. |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 18, 2007 19:31:01 GMT
And on to the extended East London line!
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Post by Ben on Jan 18, 2007 21:13:21 GMT
Britain would have benefitted immensely from a 'trackbed' like scheme; whereby important transport corridors are protected from development for a certain number of years in case of a change of circumstances. (At least thats what I'm led to believe a trackbed scheme is  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2007 22:44:22 GMT
Yeah, look at the Robin Hood Line in Leicestershire...
"Yeah, the trackbed is safeguarded." They forgot to tell a digging company that deposited 20,000 tonnes of waste in a 100ft deep cutting over a period of 32 years, and promptly buried a tunnel which was then built over with luxury houses... which were then demolished amoung howls of protest.
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- that, a long time ago, before some of you were even thought of, I was a Haringey councillor and tried to build some Council houses on what is now the Parkland walk. I failed, but someone did build a school or something on or near the site of Cranley Gardens station, which could be awkward for any Light Transit scheme. 
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