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Basil Jet · August 25th 09, 09:50 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, wrote:

In article
,
(John B) wrote:

(why wasn't Northumberland Park connected to the GEML? Even in 1967
that would surely have been a more sensible way to deliver the
trains than via half the Underground network...?)

Northumberland Park depot was in 1967 connected to the Lea Valley
line that runs alongside it (not the GEML many miles away).

Somebody decided it would be a good idea to remove the connection
after the 1967TS stock had been delivered.

Yes, to stop it escaping. Very sensible.

Since points are expensive, they would have been removed anyway whenever the
mainline track was replaced, which I imagine might be more than once in the
last 40 years. ISTR there is some railway in Australia which is used
seasonally for transporting some crop, and the flat crossing with a mainline
is removed and put back every year because this saves money over leaving the
crossing in situ.

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