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Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
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Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...tary.22_trains

Some of these are in London.
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On Monday, 6 March 2017 22:38:34 UTC, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...tary.22_trains

Some of these are in London.


That Wikipedia entry gives a link to a dedicated site, at http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/2017.htm.

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Christopher A Lee wrote:
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...tary.22_trains


That article lists the Woodgrange Park - Wilsden Junction service
as a parlimentrary one; I don't think it is. It's more of a peak
hours boost using the spare set, isn't it?

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In article , (Mike
Bristow) wrote:

In article ,
Christopher A Lee wrote:
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...xtant_.22parli
amentary.22_trains

That article lists the Woodgrange Park - Wilsden Junction service
as a parlimentrary one; I don't think it is. It's more of a peak
hours boost using the spare set, isn't it?


It uses a (short) stretch of line no other services use.

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In article ,
wrote:
In article ,
(Mike
Bristow) wrote:

In article ,
Christopher A Lee wrote:
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...xtant_.22parli
amentary.22_trains

That article lists the Woodgrange Park - Wilsden Junction service
as a parlimentrary one; I don't think it is. It's more of a peak
hours boost using the spare set, isn't it?


It uses a (short) stretch of line no other services use.


Yes, absolutly. Well, no other passenger services.

However "Using track that's not often used" isn't really the definition
of a parlimentery train, IMO. A parlimentry train is one that is
run to avoid the hassle of formal clousure procedures. That service
is a peak hours congestion buster.


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In message , at 12:03:01 on Tue,
7 Mar 2017, Mike Bristow remarked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...xtant_.22parli
amentary.22_trains

That article lists the Woodgrange Park - Wilsden Junction service
as a parlimentrary one; I don't think it is. It's more of a peak
hours boost using the spare set, isn't it?


It uses a (short) stretch of line no other services use.


Yes, absolutly. Well, no other passenger services.

However "Using track that's not often used" isn't really the definition
of a parlimentery train, IMO. A parlimentry train is one that is
run to avoid the hassle of formal clousure procedures. That service
is a peak hours congestion buster.


It could of course be a parly that unusually runs when people need it,
rather than at the most inconvenient possible time.
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:36:03 +0000, Mike Bristow
wrote:

In article ,
Christopher A Lee wrote:
On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:29:01 +0100, Jarle Hammen Knudsen
wrote:

Are there any interesting parliamentary services in London at the
moment?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlia...tary.22_trains


That article lists the Woodgrange Park - Wilsden Junction service
as a parlimentrary one; I don't think it is. It's more of a peak
hours boost using the spare set, isn't it?

It uses IIRC two bits of track not used by other passenger services -
1-GOBLIN to NLL at Gospel Oak
2-NLL to DC line at Willesden
No.2 was devoid of passenger services long before the morning DMU was
running, being one of two ways of getting from Kensal Rise to
Willesden Junction with arrival at different levels/platforms so
possibly disqualified as a Parliamentary.
Did No.1 ever have a passenger service ?
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It uses IIRC two bits of track not used by other passenger services -
1-GOBLIN to NLL at Gospel Oak

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Did No.1 ever have a passenger service ?


I don't think so; previous western termini have included stations
towards St Pancras, rather than stations beyond Hampstead, as far
as I know.

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