Acton Depot
 

Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

Acton Depot
 

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online at http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

Acton Depot
 

In article .com,
(Standing at HN28 signal) wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised
to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online at
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

Where? I couldn't find the link when I looked just now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Acton Depot
 

On 4 Oct, 22:28, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article .com,
(Standing at HN28 signal) wrote:



On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised
to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online at
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

Where? I couldn't find the link when I looked just now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

They are in
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/c1382804.html

the collection also has some EDs at Feltham on their way to Hoo Jnc
and a few other heavy rail bits and bobs!

Acton Depot
 

Standing at HN28 signal wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised
to see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004
when i went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and
give me any information about them?

I think you mean Acton Works (which is what your captions say), rather
than the Acton Depot of the London Transport Museum.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Acton Depot
 

On 5 Oct, 01:12, "Richard J." wrote:
Standing at HN28 signal wrote:

Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised
to see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004
when i went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and
give me any information about them?

I think you mean Acton Works (which is what your captions say), rather
than the Acton Depot of the London Transport Museum.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Yes that's what i mean! I never know which is called which!!

Acton Depot
 

On 4 Oct, 22:17, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:

Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online athttp://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

I noticed a complete train of 1962 stock at West Ruislip which is in
such a state that it is actually green. The one in this photo looks
in a much better condition.

Acton Depot
 

On 5 Oct, 12:33, MIG wrote:
On 4 Oct, 22:17, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:

Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online athttp://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

I noticed a complete train of 1962 stock at West Ruislip which is in
such a state that it is actually green. The one in this photo looks
in a much better condition.

Presumably not painted green then?? There is a pilot train in the
depot there which i think is 1962 stock, there is also a preserved
unit courtesy of the Cravens group. But I am not aware of any other
being in existance unfortunately. There used to be one at Ongar but it
had to be scrapped after the local scrotes got at it!

Acton Depot
 

In article . com,
(Standing at HN28 signal) wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:28, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article .com,
(Standing at HN28 signal) wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very
surprised to see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there
in late 2004 when i went! Are there any plans for them? can
anyone i.d. them and give me any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online at
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

Where? I couldn't find the link when I looked just now.

They are in
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/c1382804.html

the collection also has some EDs at Feltham on their way to Hoo Jnc
and a few other heavy rail bits and bobs!


Thanks. Found them now.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Acton Depot
 

On 5 Oct, 13:04, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
On 5 Oct, 12:33, MIG wrote:





On 4 Oct, 22:17, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:

Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

forgot to mention the photos are now online athttp://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/

I noticed a complete train of 1962 stock at West Ruislip which is in
such a state that it is actually green. The one in this photo looks
in a much better condition.

Presumably not painted green then?? There is a pilot train in the
depot there which i think is 1962 stock, there is also a preserved
unit courtesy of the Cravens group. But I am not aware of any other
being in existance unfortunately. There used to be one at Ongar but it
had to be scrapped after the local scrotes got at it!


No, just mouldy, or whatever can possibly happen to aluminium alloy.
It doesn't look as if it's being used, and it's a full train worth (ie
two units).

Acton Depot
 

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

I'm a little intrigued by this photo...
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/p45622649.html
....specifically the destination of Tooting Broadway.

I presume that there's a crossover south of Tooting Broadway for
reversals (stupidly and pathetically I can't work out from CULG
whether this is the case - indeed whether CULG even provides such
information).

However I'm interested to know whether Tooting Broadway was ever used
as a southerly destination (i.e. for terminating and then reversing)
during normal service on the Northern line?

Acton Depot
 

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:01:07 -0700, Mizter T wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised to
see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004 when i
went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and give me
any information about them?

I'm a little intrigued by this photo...
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/p45622649.html
...specifically the destination of Tooting Broadway.

I presume that there's a crossover south of Tooting Broadway for
reversals (stupidly and pathetically I can't work out from CULG
whether this is the case - indeed whether CULG even provides such
information).

However I'm interested to know whether Tooting Broadway was ever used
as a southerly destination (i.e. for terminating and then reversing)
during normal service on the Northern line?

Yes there is a turn back siding at Tooting Broadway located to the south
of the station between the running tunnels. I don't think there are
scheduled turns in the current timetable but it has certainly been used
on that basis before and is used for emergency reversing these days if
there are problems. The destination blind in the photo is not that
unusual and is perfectly feasible given through running off the CX
branch is a feature of the current and previous NL timetables.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Acton Depot
 

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:01:07 -0700, Mizter T
wrote:

On 4 Oct, 22:13, Standing at HN28 signal
wrote:
Took a visit to the park next to Acton Depot and was very surprised
to see the same 72ts and 62ts there that were there in late 2004
when
i went! Are there any plans for them? can anyone i.d. them and
give me any information about them?

I'm a little intrigued by this photo...
http://www.tonysrailphotos.fotopic.net/p45622649.html
...specifically the destination of Tooting Broadway.

I presume that there's a crossover south of Tooting Broadway for
reversals (stupidly and pathetically I can't work out from CULG
whether this is the case - indeed whether CULG even provides such
information).

However I'm interested to know whether Tooting Broadway was ever used
as a southerly destination (i.e. for terminating and then reversing)
during normal service on the Northern line?

Yes there is a turn back siding at Tooting Broadway located to the
south
of the station between the running tunnels. I don't think there are
scheduled turns in the current timetable but it has certainly been used
on that basis before and is used for emergency reversing these days if
there are problems. The destination blind in the photo is not that
unusual and is perfectly feasible given through running off the CX
branch is a feature of the current and previous NL timetables.

The Tooting Broadway siding was the site of an accident with an empty
train that was a precursor to the Moorgate disaster.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Acton Depot
 

On 5 Oct, 15:04, MIG wrote:

No, just mouldy, or whatever can possibly happen to aluminium alloy.
It doesn't look as if it's being used, and it's a full train worth (ie
two units).-

Those have been there for years; I seem to remember a sign on one of
them, in a side window I think, saying 'Test train', though exactly
what it was used for testing I don't know.

A couple of weks or so ago, on the way to Birmingham I noticed that
the white lights on the front end were turned on, so it isn't totaally
dead.