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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2005 22:31:14 GMT
i just rang my SOM (signal opertions manager) up and he said they were detectors for the steam trains not the electric ones and they was placed after ravenscourt pk. they were to do with the locking for the frame so that the route to the picc could not be set this was before the mercury tubes which are between hammersmith and barons ct on the picc to stop a surface stock going down the hole Is any more information available about these mysterious detectors? Most of the literature I have read places no LT interlockings at Ravenscourt Park at all, and implies that Studland Road Junction was lifted during the conversion of the four-tracking for the projection of the Piccadilly Line to Hounslow and Uxbridge via Acton Town. If there was an interlocking there, did it supersede the structure on the e/b island that looks an awful lot like a signal box? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2005 8:23:07 GMT
there has never been a interlocking machine room at ravenscourt park these detectors had the associate equipment in hammersmith IMR
where i said it had to do with the locking of the frame i ment the one at hammersmith
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2005 16:58:40 GMT
Oh, I see.
Why then is there such a big gap between WG and WK? Were the W codes ever used between Turnham Green and Hammersmith?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2005 18:18:32 GMT
WG is putney bridge
WK is turnham green
WD is hammersmith
theres no logical reason why the lettered the old cabins in this way must of been in order of when earls court took control of the old cabins now IMR's
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Post by q8 on Oct 30, 2005 19:06:18 GMT
There was (very early on) a signal box at Ravenscourt Park. Perhaps that was once 'WH'
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2005 19:25:22 GMT
There was (very early on) a signal box at Ravenscourt Park. Perhaps that was once 'WH' I think the shell is still there, on the country end of the eastbound island. |
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Post by Harsig on Oct 31, 2005 8:43:45 GMT
WG is putney bridge WK is turnham green WD is hammersmith theres no logical reason why the lettered the old cabins in this way must of been in order of when earls court took control of the old cabins now IMR's The codes generally predate Earls Court Control Room by about 50 years. As far as I know the codes between WG and WK have never been used although they may well have been deliberately set aside for possible future use at stations between Hammersmith and Turnham Green. |
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