Just out of curiousity , what are the longest overrun tunnels on the
Underground? My guess is Charing Cross but someone else reckons its Brixton.
Anyone know? Also , did the tunnels beyond charing cross ever get used by
trains for stabling or were they abandoned long ago?

B2003

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Boltar ),
in message who said:
Just out of curiousity , what are the longest overrun tunnels on the
Underground? My guess is Charing Cross but someone else reckons its
Brixton. Anyone know? Also , did the tunnels beyond charing cross
ever get used by trains for stabling or were they abandoned long ago?



From what I've heard:

Jubilee line extends from Charing X to Aldwich, including a lengthy reversal
siding.

(Technically, I'm not sure you can consider this overrun now as the Charing
X branch is closed anyway, so in effect it's an unused branch comprising
partly disused and partly unopened track).

Victoria Line South of Brixon negotiates a fairly tight curve as far as the
Upper Tulse Hill area where (in some proposals) a Station would've been
sited on the abortive Streatham extension.

Bakerloo Line beyond Elephant has one tunnel only that goes most of the way
to Camberwell.

At the north end of the Vic, it goes a fair distance towards walthamstow
wood st.

BTN

"Ben Nunn" wrote in message ...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Boltar ),
in message who said:
Just out of curiousity , what are the longest overrun tunnels on the
Underground? My guess is Charing Cross but someone else reckons its
Brixton. Anyone know? Also , did the tunnels beyond charing cross
ever get used by trains for stabling or were they abandoned long ago?



From what I've heard:

Jubilee line extends from Charing X to Aldwich, including a lengthy reversal
siding.

(Technically, I'm not sure you can consider this overrun now as the Charing
X branch is closed anyway, so in effect it's an unused branch comprising
partly disused and partly unopened track).

Victoria Line South of Brixon negotiates a fairly tight curve as far as the
Upper Tulse Hill area where (in some proposals) a Station would've been
sited on the abortive Streatham extension.

Bakerloo Line beyond Elephant has one tunnel only that goes most of the way
to Camberwell.

At the north end of the Vic, it goes a fair distance towards walthamstow
wood st.

BTN

So what is at the end of the Charing X overrun? Was any work begun on
the Aldwych station itself?

"Ben Nunn" wrote in message ...
From what I've heard:

Jubilee line extends from Charing X to Aldwich, including a lengthy reversal
siding.

(Technically, I'm not sure you can consider this overrun now as the Charing
X branch is closed anyway, so in effect it's an unused branch comprising
partly disused and partly unopened track).

Victoria Line South of Brixon negotiates a fairly tight curve as far as the
Upper Tulse Hill area where (in some proposals) a Station would've been
sited on the abortive Streatham extension.

Bakerloo Line beyond Elephant has one tunnel only that goes most of the way
to Camberwell.

At the north end of the Vic, it goes a fair distance towards walthamstow
wood st.

Do trains ever run down these tunnels or are they just for emergencies only
or derelict? Does anyone know if they have special exits to the street at the
end, since if a train did run down there and be stabled how would the driver
get out , would he have to walk down the track back to the terminus station?

B2003

In article , Boltar
writes
Do trains ever run down these tunnels or are they just for emergencies only
or derelict?

In many cases they're used as stabling sidings.

Does anyone know if they have special exits to the street at the
end, since if a train did run down there and be stabled how would the driver
get out , would he have to walk down the track back to the terminus station?

Firstly, he can walk down the train to the other end. After that, if the
line is intended as a stabling siding there will be a walkway or
passageway from that point. Otherwise, yes, he'd have to walk along the
track.

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In message , Clive D. W. Feather
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Firstly, he can walk down the train to the other end.
This was the practice when reversing at Tooting Broadway, Kennington
from the city, etc.
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Clive

In article ,
(Clive) wrote:

In message , Clive D. W. Feather
writes
Firstly, he can walk down the train to the other end.
This was the practice when reversing at Tooting Broadway, Kennington
from the city, etc.
--
Clive

As indeed was the practice at Euston and Clapham Common. Nine trains used
to start from Clapham Common on a weekday morning (1916). Presumably this
was three each from the two overrun tunnels (Nos. 1 & 2 sidings) which
were 450 feet long. Euston was smaller, with only 227 feet long overrun
tunnels.

Roger

"Ben Nunn
From what I've heard:

Jubilee line extends from Charing X to Aldwich, including a lengthy reversal
siding.

Charing Cross station = 42.39km, end of line = 41.86km



Victoria Line South of Brixon negotiates a fairly tight curve as far as the
Upper Tulse Hill area where (in some proposals) a Station would've been
sited on the abortive Streatham extension.

Brixton station = 48.61km, end of line = 49.02km



Bakerloo Line beyond Elephant has one tunnel only that goes most of the way
to Camberwell.

No track in tunnel, so don't know the distance of that one, sorry!



At the north end of the Vic, it goes a fair distance towards walthamstow
wood st.

Walthamstow station = 27.33km, end of line = 26.98km


PhilD

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