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London - Met widened lines query.
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writes Exploring the furthest reaches Barbican station I noticed a third tunnel mouth at the western end of the platforms, between the TL and KU tunnels, and what looked like a ground frame, still connected to point rods disaooearing into the ballast, between the TL tracks. Were these related to the former Smithfield goods station? ( I thought Smithfield goods was south of the TL tracks, as showm at http://www.londonrailways.net/snowhill.htm.) I think there was a ground frame (released from West Hampstead PSB) at the west end of Barbican Station up until the late 80s. IIRC this controlled a trailing crossover between the two TL lines and was recovered (at least as far as the interlocking was concerned) as part of a capacity upgrade project c.1989. There used to be two sidings between the two lines, connected to both eastbound lines. Presumably that tunnel accommodated them. The connection to the Widened Lines also had a short engine stub coming off it. There were two trailing crossovers on the TL lines, one either side of the connection to the sidings. The one on the west side had a connection coming off it into the Smithfield Goods station (that is, there was a trailing connection from the Goods on to the eastbound TL, with a single slip where it crossed the westbound allowing movements between the two running lines). -- Clive D.W. Feather | Home: Mobile: +44 7973 377646 | Web: http://www.davros.org Please reply to the Reply-To address, which is: |
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