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Also the connected Northern and Eastern.
The nearby London and Blackwall was 5' 1/2" but changed to the standard when the extension to the ECR via Bow Road was built
Presumably it's not just train staff in the figures but all staff.
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Looking at my local line, c2c, I'm puzzled as to how it incurs a diesel cost. I'm also surprised the lease costs for its 357s are not lower.
Around my way we have Tollesbury Pier, already mentioned, Blackwall and Thames Haven. Maldon East was planned to be on a quayside but the quay was never built.
Stanford-le-Hope had a wheeled platform section from 1881 to 1918. A platform extension could only go over the level crossing so a mobile wooden platform section was introduced.
The 1918 station rebuild moved everything to the other side of the crossing.
I can't find any pics online but there...
Just sitting quietly at home in Basildon when the unmistakable noise of a 37 comes through the closed windows. From about half a mile away. Always makes me smile.
Quite a big night out for it:
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The 357s were built for 100 mph, and could probably exceed that, but spend their life limited to 75. It's a shame no one's ever hired a pair for a railtour up the GEML to stretch their legs.
David Brennand's book London's East End Diesels has a pic of a pic of a 3 car Class 125 heading west from Barking en route to Fen St in 1968.
Volume 7 of Peter Kay's history of the LTS mentions that in 1958 DMUs were used for Pitsea-Tilbury- Barking services. The only mention of them reaching...