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Colin Rosenstiel · September 28th 07, 10:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Paul Scott) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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In article ,
(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...

I don't remember BR trains ever stopping at East Putney as a kid over 50
years ago when both BR platforms were still intact.

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?

LU got the route (along with others) so it wasn't privatised in 1994 I
think. LU had run the signalling on the Putney Bridge-East Putney section
for years before then despite it still being BR owned.

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Colin Rosenstiel