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South London Line issues [was: ELL Stock in Place]
On Jan 23, 10:15*am, MIG wrote: On 23 Jan, 01:05, Andy wrote: [snip] The Victoria - Dartford services actually run through Clapham High Street platforms much of the time anyway; most switch to / from the Chatham Reversible at Voltaire Road Junction, although in the past many have gone via the low level lines. Since the loss of the Eurostar services, the trains via Stewarts Lane have been reduced to a few Up peak services. I think that's pretty much all there ever was, even when Eurostar was there. *The only time I ever saw the down Stewarts Lane being used was during engineering works on the viaduct. The Up Stewart's Lane low level route (to Vic) was in regular use by the Vic-Dartford trains until recently - I think this is more or less no longer the case, I'm not sure though. The Down Stewart's Lane low level route (i.e. passing on the easternmost track next to Battersea Power station) was seemingly timetabled for use by a couple of later evening Dartford trains (19:16 and 19:46 ring a bell), but I recall reading somewhere (gensheet I suppose) about folk who were trying to 'score' this track (or whatever the phrase that's used!) who all seemed to think it never actually happened, something to do with how a rare set of circumstances where many planets had to align - an arriving train had to come at just the right point when a Eurostar was leaving or something like that - and only then would it happen. I was on a train that went that way once a few years back - 'twas dark and I was reading a book so I almost missed it, not that I'm really in the game of trying to 'score' such track or anything like that though! (Though is interesting and mildly satisfying to traverse a track that one sees and wonders whether it ever actually gets used... damn, looks like my secret life of being a not very committed rare track basher is out!) |
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