Farringdon to Moorgate
 

On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 23:03:26 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:41:17 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:



Google turns up some reference to Lillie Bridge now being used for
stabling S stock.

Yes, I think that's the main use now for the former depot.

When did become a former depot? Didn't realise it had closed.

https://anonw.com/2019/03/24/where-has-lillie-bridge-depot-gone/

I'd forgotten the exhibition centre had been knocked down. A disgraceful
act of social vandalism and one of the few things I agree with Sadiq Khan
about.

Farringdon to Moorgate
 

Basil Jet wrote:
On 11/07/2020 07:42, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 10/07/2020 21:48, Recliner wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:26:13 -0000 (UTC), Anna Noyd-Dryver
wrote:

Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:

"Another Station, Another Mile" says at...

https://youtu.be/yEiVXoalUQ0?t=580

... that the abandoned national rail lines from Moorgate to
Farringdon
might see re-use as part of a plan to increase capacity on the C/M/H
lines. Does anyone know what he means?

They're being converted into sidings to stable eight S7 trains, needed
because the number of such sidings was reduced when these trains
replaced
the shorter C stock. They won't be used as running lines.

Where have these eight trains been living for the last six years, then?

IIRC "in the wrong place" in the form of being parked in less
convenient places outwith traffic hours. Siding space has been lost at
Wembley Park because S stock is too long. That accounts for 4 or 5
trains and until recently there was at least one away at any one time
for mods.

I think some were also lost at Triangle sidings and Hammersmith.

I didn't realise trains were lost in the Triangle as well as ships and
planes.

They lost a Circle Line train for a week once.
They found it in Rickmansworth sidings.

Perhaps they should have been searching for all those ships and planes in
Rickmansworth.

Sam

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Farringdon to Moorgate
 

On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:56:21 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
wrote:

Basil Jet wrote:
On 11/07/2020 07:42, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 10/07/2020 21:48, Recliner wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:26:13 -0000 (UTC), Anna Noyd-Dryver
wrote:

Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:

"Another Station, Another Mile" says at...

https://youtu.be/yEiVXoalUQ0?t=580

... that the abandoned national rail lines from Moorgate to
Farringdon
might see re-use as part of a plan to increase capacity on the C/M/H
lines. Does anyone know what he means?

They're being converted into sidings to stable eight S7 trains, needed
because the number of such sidings was reduced when these trains
replaced
the shorter C stock. They won't be used as running lines.

Where have these eight trains been living for the last six years, then?

IIRC "in the wrong place" in the form of being parked in less
convenient places outwith traffic hours. Siding space has been lost at
Wembley Park because S stock is too long. That accounts for 4 or 5
trains and until recently there was at least one away at any one time
for mods.

I think some were also lost at Triangle sidings and Hammersmith.

I didn't realise trains were lost in the Triangle as well as ships and
planes.

They lost a Circle Line train for a week once.
They found it in Rickmansworth sidings.

Perhaps they should have been searching for all those ships and planes in
Rickmansworth.

Aren't you thinking of the Watford Triangle ?

Farringdon to Moorgate
 

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:56:21 -0000 (UTC), Sam Wilson
wrote:

Basil Jet wrote:
On 11/07/2020 07:42, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 10/07/2020 21:48, Recliner wrote:
Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:26:13 -0000 (UTC), Anna Noyd-Dryver
wrote:

Recliner wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:

"Another Station, Another Mile" says at...

https://youtu.be/yEiVXoalUQ0?t=580

... that the abandoned national rail lines from Moorgate to
Farringdon
might see re-use as part of a plan to increase capacity on the C/M/H
lines. Does anyone know what he means?

They're being converted into sidings to stable eight S7 trains, needed
because the number of such sidings was reduced when these trains
replaced
the shorter C stock. They won't be used as running lines.

Where have these eight trains been living for the last six years, then?

IIRC "in the wrong place" in the form of being parked in less
convenient places outwith traffic hours. Siding space has been lost at
Wembley Park because S stock is too long. That accounts for 4 or 5
trains and until recently there was at least one away at any one time
for mods.

I think some were also lost at Triangle sidings and Hammersmith.

I didn't realise trains were lost in the Triangle as well as ships and
planes.

They lost a Circle Line train for a week once.
They found it in Rickmansworth sidings.

Perhaps they should have been searching for all those ships and planes in
Rickmansworth.

Aren't you thinking of the Watford Triangle ?


If it is ships and planes then Ruislip Lido could be a candidate.

GH

Farringdon to Moorgate
 

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:23:48 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

Where have these eight trains been living for the last six years, then?

IIRC "in the wrong place" in the form of being parked in less
convenient places outwith traffic hours. Siding space has been lost at
Wembley Park because S stock is too long. That accounts for 4 or 5
trains and until recently there was at least one away at any one time
for mods.


I think some were also lost at Triangle sidings

3 trains now - 1 District & 2 C&H. was 7 when I started there.

Yes, that definitely looks a bit less crowded now.

and Hammersmith.

Too long for the sheds until alterations made ?

Google turns up some reference to Lillie Bridge now being used for
stabling S stock.

Stabling for 12 trains after Engineers were evicted to West Ruislip.