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Old October 19th 04, 05:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dave Arquati Dave Arquati is offline
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Default Former station layouts

Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article , Nestor Badudoy
writes

Any chance you still have those ASCII diagrams - can't seem to find them on
Google groups.



I've been unable to find them either, so here is an attempted
reconstruction.

(snip)
On 1957-07-28 a new layout was opened, having been installed overnight:

To Padd
^ v
| |
#| |#| |#
#| |#| |# HSK
#| |#| |#
| | * *
| |/|/|
| X X |
|/|/| |
* * | |
| | \ \
| | \ \
/ / \ \
/ / \ \
/ / | \ Gloucester South
^ v \ \ Road Kensington
To EC \ \ ###### ######
\ \-*------*----------Slow---------------\
\ / / \
/----------X-*------*------------Fast-----------------*----
/ \ ###### ###### To MH
----/ -----------*--------*---------Circle----------------*----

To EC / /
--------------------------*------------Dist---------------/
###### ######

The fast line was last used 1964-10-12, and on 1967-01-08 it was
disconnected and the slow was slewed on to its trackbed at South Ken.

(snip)

Out of interest, why did they decide to have a slow/fast separation here
and how was it used? Did trains skip either/both of these stations, and
if so, was it really worth it?

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Dave Arquati
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