On 2017\08\25 19:48, MikeS wrote:
On 25/08/2017 19:20, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\08\25 16:23, Robin9 wrote:
I've mentioned before how YouTube in-cab videos fascinate me.
One uploaded in the past 24 hours might hold a wider interest
because it provides a rare opportunity to sample the Hendon
Lines and the Brent West Curve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFyw4OJ_HQ&t=15s

Oldskidmark - a most unfortunate choice of moniker - is obviously
a driver of freight trains, and he has uploaded several videos of
fairly obscure freight routes in the London area.

Thanks. I've just noticed that there's a "Hendon Chord" reversible
track just north of Hendon station between the fast lines and the
Brent Curve which leads to the Dudden Hill line. Does it get much use?

It's also amazing how much valuable land is wasted between the RAF
museum and Hendon Station. It might be a bit noisy for housing but
you'd think some use could be made of it.

I assume you are looking to the west as the M1 is mostly sitting on
former railway land to the east. Not much usable land to the west other
than parts of the old Met Police College which they have not yet started
developing. If you look at the topography I think you will find plenty
of embankments which are fine for trees but not buildings.

I meant between the tracks, and on the alignment of the Hendon Chord
which seems superfluous.