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Thameslink KO0 at Kentish Town
On Nov 16, 6:57 pm, "Peter Lawrence" wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:27:39 -0000, "Paul Scott" I was wondering how they will deal with the trains that terminate at Kentish Town, (vice Blackfriars under KO0). For instance would the signalling allow all through trains to use the outer platforms, leaving the middle platforms (2 and 3) for trains terminating and reversing? I dunno about plans but the signalling allows this, and most other variations. Platform 1 & 2 (''Up Moorgate'' and ''Down Moorgate;; lines) are reversible but only from the north i.e. a southbound train can be turned back northwards so that does not hrlp this answer. Platform 4 (''Up & Down Slow'') is fully reversible throughout but from the south is only accessable to/from SP high level so again is of no help. Platform 3 (''Up & Down Releif'') is fully reversible throughout and can accommodate reversing trains to/from both directions. From the south end it leads to what is known as Dock Junction North on the the Moorgate lines. The only possible question is using this creates conflicting moves as SB trains will have to cross the Down Moorgate. Do we know yet of Kentish Town terminators are turning back there or are running ECS and turning back in Cricklewood sidings ? There are two routes from Cricklewood into the sidings ... north and south of the platforms ... keeping all options open would suggest why such moves would not call at Cricklewood beyond Kentish Town. The Kentish Town Up & Down Releif used to be used a lot more for ECS when units from Selhurst used to run ECS to/from Moorgate peak trains but since stabling has shifted to Cricklewood and increased at Bedford is much less used ... there is only one SX move in the current workings. Even that one does not appear to be wholly necessary and might be simply a ''rusty rail'' move to keep the route activated. The Up & Down Relief is sometimes used to overtake Up trains when the ''flyer'' is late getting to pass the ''metro''. As you know, all ''flyers'' have to overtake all ''metros'' somewhere between Radlett Junctions and West Hampstead. Normally the the metro is USL all the way with the flyer on USL until either Harpenden Junction or Radlett Junction where it switches to the UFL and back to USL at WHD South Jn. If the flyer is late enough but can still overtake the metro at or around Kentish Town the normal procedure (from my observation) is that the *metro* is re-routed through Kentish Town platform 3 and does its station call there while the flyer takes its booked route across WHD South Junction thus overtaking by using platform 1. ) from the track bashing point of view that is most irritating - use of the Dock Junction North route is extremely rare - and since you never know when this will occur, and I use the flyers from Luton, I am on the normally routed train and see the diverted train, but can do nothing about it ( -- Nick |
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