"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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(Paul Scott) wrote:
If the NLR had been the only user of the route, it would probably
have suited Network Rail to transfer the infrastructure to LU. But
even then things can move exceedingly slowly - didn't it take about
35 years for the East Putney to Wimbledon section to be transferred
to LU?
Only 35 years? Where do you get that from? It was far more than that,
surely? When did the first District trains run to East Putney?
I was meaning the gap between the last main line services stopping in
the1960s?, and the line being transferred to LU, which I believe was during
the 90s. It wouldn't have been necessary to transfer the line to LU as soon
as the first District line trains used the line, the LSWR would have simply
billed them for the use. IIRC a similar length of time passed between the
line to Upminster ceasing to have main line trains and its eventual transfer
to LU, and there must be many other areas where this happened...
But it seems the Wimbledon branch still has Network Rail doing the
signalling (another thread running in uk.t.l), so maybe LU were only sold
the stations?
Paul