View Single Post
  #11   Report Post  
Old May 5th 11, 08:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Nick Leverton Nick Leverton is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Nov 2003
Posts: 351
Default South West Trains diverted at Wimbledon?

In article ,
wrote:
In article 01cc0a8f$ac2af800$LocalHost@default, (Michael
R N Dolbear) wrote:

Your "in both directions" is most interesting as is peter's "going
north". During my commuting years my train took that route a number of
times (to the considerable surprise of many passengers) but only in the
Down direction..

I thought I remembered discussions here that Up wasn't or couldn't be
used.


It can be used but involves conflicting moves at Point Pleasant Junction
due to removal of the bridge from East Putney across the Windsor lines
some years ago.


The bridge and the associated up connection were out of use for some
years due to decrepitude of the bridge. I don't have a recent Quail
but I presume the former down spur can now be used in both directions.

Nick
--
Serendipity:
http://www.leverton.org/blosxom (last update 29th March 2010)
"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996