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Greenford branch closure this week
"cj" wrote * -was it South Greenford that had a platform collapse down an embankment a good few years ago, which took an age for FGW/NR to fix? It was. For ages [1] only down trains called, and there was a lengthy 5 mph speed restriction [1] The stop was omitted on up trains in timetables from 1995 - 1999 inclusive. Passengers from South Greenford towards Ealing Broadway and Paddington were advised to travel via Greenford. For a time in the mid-1980s off-peak trains did not call at Drayton Green, as they tried to run a half-hourly shuttle between Greenford and Ealing Broadway with one unit (presumably in those days a bubblecar. In 1967 the off-peak service was only hourly. In the peaks the bubblecars were strengthened with a 'Drive End Trailer', but the set which operated the off-peak trains left its Trailer in the Ealing Broadway reversing siding, attaching it again for the evening peak. Peter |
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