Is the line between Bromley North & Grove Park single or double Track?

I believe it's double track up until just after Sundridge Park, where
the line then goes single until the double platform at Bromley North...

That is all I can remember of it. I've a quail somewhere but I can't
really find it right now.

DERWENT Bromley North Line
25 May 2005 08:51:06 -0700,

I believe it's double track up until just after Sundridge Park, where
the line then goes single until the double platform at Bromley North...

That is all I can remember of it. I've a quail somewhere but I can't
really find it right now.

ASCII based upon current Quail map:

---------------
/ Platform 1
Grove Park Sundridge Park ---/ Bromley North
Platform 1 Down Platform / / Platform 2
----------------------------------------------X------------------
\_____________________________/____/
UP Platform

NTS

If it' looks like Giberish then try the Courier font, then blame me
for over-running the line length.

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Is the line between Bromley North & Grove Park single or double Track?

AFAIK it is still double track and fully signalled, even though there's
normally only one train on the branch.

Peter

AFAIK it is still double track and fully signalled, even though there's
normally only one train on the branch.

Yea, that's why I asked. I was looking at the LDBs and all the trains
seem to be shuttles.
What's the reason for running it as a shuttle, anyone know? Congestion
on the MainLine & other services couldnt be cutBack?

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com...
AFAIK it is still double track and fully signalled, even though there's
normally only one train on the branch.

Yea, that's why I asked. I was looking at the LDBs and all the trains
seem to be shuttles.
What's the reason for running it as a shuttle, anyone know? Congestion
on the MainLine & other services couldnt be cutBack?

When there were through trains they were much more lightly loaded than other
Charing Cross and Cannon Street services, and of course running a train to
Bromley North takes a path away from another route. Passengers from Bromley,
at least to the West End, have a faster and much more frequent service from
Bromley South to Victoria. The surprising thing is that the infrastructure
hasn't been reduced to a siding - as has happened to Epsom Downs, while
Crystal Palace - Beckenham Junction was singled before Tramlink became
definite and took over the other half of the formation.

Peter

DERWENT Bromley North Line
Wed, 25 May 2005 17:37:22 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Masson"



"Joe" wrote in message
roups.com...
AFAIK it is still double track and fully signalled, even though there's
normally only one train on the branch.

Yea, that's why I asked. I was looking at the LDBs and all the trains
seem to be shuttles.
What's the reason for running it as a shuttle, anyone know? Congestion
on the MainLine & other services couldnt be cutBack?

When there were through trains they were much more lightly loaded than other
Charing Cross and Cannon Street services, and of course running a train to
Bromley North takes a path away from another route. Passengers from Bromley,
at least to the West End, have a faster and much more frequent service from
Bromley South to Victoria. The surprising thing is that the infrastructure
hasn't been reduced to a siding - as has happened to Epsom Downs, while
Crystal Palace - Beckenham Junction was singled before Tramlink became
definite and took over the other half of the formation.


Bromley North used to be used as an overnight stabling point (and
possibly a day time one as well). The quail map says the platforms are
10 cars (slam) or 8 cars (networker). The time table used to have a
number of trains at the ends of service with first class accomodation
which were CIGs (or VEPs) going for berthing. I think there were extra
sidings in the past - the bus station looks suspiciously like it's
been built on railway land...

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"PRAR" wrote

Bromley North used to be used as an overnight stabling point (and
possibly a day time one as well). The quail map says the platforms are
10 cars (slam) or 8 cars (networker). The time table used to have a
number of trains at the ends of service with first class accomodation
which were CIGs (or VEPs) going for berthing. I think there were extra
sidings in the past - the bus station looks suspiciously like it's
been built on railway land...

The track layout, according to your ASCII, doesn't appear to have changed
since the 1976 London Bridge resignalling, except that the connections
between the branch and the Up and Down Fast south of Grove Park have been
abolished, and all trains now have to run through the Branch Platform.

For a few years after the resignalling there were through trains to and from
Charing Cross in the Monday - Friday peaks, and these needed to pass on the
branch (or in the morning peak by the Down train using the Down Fast
platfrom at Grove Park while the Up used the Branch platfrom). At the time
there were also occasional London Bridge to Bromley North postals (using
emus with the seats turned, IIRC), so there were a few occasions when both
platfroms were needed at Bromley North.

Although I recall (but can't say when) a siding adjacent to platform 2 at
Bromley North (if you've got the numbering right - the August 1975 MR labels
the eastern platfrom as 2) this isn't shown in the track diagram in the Aug
75 MR, and a 1976 WTT doesn't show any trains going for berthing (and the
last arrival at Bromley North is balanced by an ecs from there to Grove Park
shed). VEPs only arrived on the South Eastern Division in about 1973, and
CIGs considerably later than that.

If Bill Hayles is reading this he may have more information.

Peter

On Wed, 25 May 2005 19:55:37 +0100, PRAR wrote:



Bromley North used to be used as an overnight stabling point (and
possibly a day time one as well). The quail map says the platforms are
10 cars (slam) or 8 cars (networker). The time table used to have a
number of trains at the ends of service with first class accomodation
which were CIGs (or VEPs) going for berthing. I think there were extra
sidings in the past - the bus station looks suspiciously like it's
been built on railway land...


My main knowledge of the branch was in the 1980s, when I was a guard
at Grove Park. By then, the freight yard had disappeared, but it
was still the railhead for Bromley's mail, and had several mail
trains a day (simply normal EPB units with the seat cushions turned
back!). There were the through trains, and a ten car unit was
stabled between the peaks. The connection with the up and down fast
was still there, and used in the evening peak. No stock was stabled
overnight, but there were some interesting early morning movements.

During the peaks, as well as the through trains, there were two
"poppers" shuttling back and forth - all in all a busy branch.

--
Bill Hayles
http://www.rossrail.com

"Joe" wrote
Yea, that's why I asked. I was looking at the LDBs and all the trains
seem to be shuttles.
What's the reason for running it as a shuttle, anyone know? Congestion
on the MainLine & other services couldnt be cutBack?

The Bromley North branch also suffers from being on the "fast" side of the
layout at Grove Park - a bit like Coulsdon North on the Brighton line, which
closed largely, I think, as a result of the local (slow) and through (fast)
lines being swapped over in the 1980's, leaving it awkwardly situated.