On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:


When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of "Southbury
Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when the general
trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

In article , (Ken
Wheatley) wrote:

On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:


When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of
"Southbury Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when
the general trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

That as well, no you mention it.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Ken Wheatley wrote on 04 May 2014 01:03:58 ...
On 2014-05-03 23:50:56 +0000, said:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:


When was the loop also called "Turkey St"?

When I said "It was renamed as Turkey Street", I was referring to the
station (originally Forty Hill), not the loop. No idea if that name
was ever given to the loop.

I've more than once heard the loop given alternative names of "Southbury
Loop" and "Turkey St Loop". It was re-opened at a time when the general
trend was closures.

I've never heard the Turkey St. Loop, but it's often been called the
Churchbury Loop.

Churchbury appears to have been the original 1891 name of the loop, and
of the southernmost station on the loop. Churchbury station was renamed
as Southbury when passenger services restarted in 1960, and the loop
name changed to Southbury at the same time. (Info from H.P.White's
Greater London volume of the Regional History of the Railways of Great
Britain, 1963.) The reason for the short reopening of the loop in
1915-1919 was to run workmen's trains to and from munitions factories.
Otherwise, local journeys were more convenient by tram at that time.
--
Richard J.
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On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:06:34PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:

Which makes me wonder, why are mills usually built astride the river?

A good reason for doing that is that it means you can avoid having a
horrible twisting force on the axle supporting the wheel, so can build
it lighter and it'll turn more freely. You want to have equal forces on
both ends of the axle, so, eg, having mill stones driven off both ends
rather than just a static support at one end and the mill at t'other.
Another is that you can have a seperate mill race and river and, in
times when land transport was slow and expensive, float a barge full of
sacks of grain right under the trap door so that a crane driven off the
water wheel can quickly unload it.

Whether the savings from doing those are sufficient to make up for the
cost of putting up a building on a bridge I have no idea.

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On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 05:08:11PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:

I'm not convinced... no matter how narrow a stream is, it won't normally
be built over unless it's a high density urban area.

I wouldn't call Winchester a high density urban area even now, let alone
at the time when its mill was built straddling the river.

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poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to
catch TB than a normal person

On 2014\05\06 15:01, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 05:08:11PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:

I'm not convinced... no matter how narrow a stream is, it won't normally
be built over unless it's a high density urban area.

I wouldn't call Winchester a high density urban area even now, let alone
at the time when its mill was built straddling the river.

That's precisely my point - mills are often built over rivers even
though no other building is.