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Post by chris on Sept 18, 2005 8:22:34 GMT
On the ELL, there is a link to the District line, but what is it used for? D and C stock would be too big, so is it for engineers trains?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2005 8:33:06 GMT
Originally it was used so trains from the District Railway (and I think the Metropolitan Railway too) could run down to New Cross and New Cross Gate from St. Mary's. Nowadays it's used for stock movements, moving A stock between the ELL and Neasden.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2005 11:17:53 GMT
any stock can use st mary's curve with the exception of you can not have 2 A stocks passing each other as it is a bit tight also the signalling was modified sometime in the past so this could not happy anyway.
If i remember rightly a 3 car unit of D stock used to operate on the line in the mid 80's, when i was based at whitechapel a few years ago i can remember a
D stock going down the ELL it was turned around in new cross depot
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Post by q8 on Sept 18, 2005 13:20:36 GMT
All the trains on the ELL were double ended 'D' stock units for period in the 80's. On one occasion one of them must have got homesick for it took it's driver and passengers round to Aldgate East in the morning peak.
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Post by Chris W on Sept 22, 2005 11:57:06 GMT
All the trains on the ELL were double ended 'D' stock units for period in the 80's. On one occasion one of them must have got homesick for it took it's driver and passengers round to Aldgate East in the morning peak. Q8 - Are you saying that our very own DD was not the founder of the wrong stick movement? ;D ;D ;D  |
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Post by q8 on Sept 22, 2005 16:03:36 GMT
By no means was DD the pioneer. There used to be a driver on the ELL who regularly went on safari into the green veldt with his handle in his hand.
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