Recent content by Sad Sprinter

If I'm correct I think the plan was to just run down the Metropolitan to Farringdon and onto the Chatham system? Great question.

Thanks, amazing pictures. All done with British firms and technology too at the time. The future was yesterday. "Three Bridges ROC" just isn't the same.

Perhaps you can tell me, why is VC and VS located at Clapham Junction?

North Pole Junction I always think is what it should be called. I sympathise with the OP, OOC seems less useful without the Overground connections. Why’s it so hard to build things in this country?

If we need to extend the platforms that much, can't we just punch them through to the other side of the airport onto the WCML? Running onto Liverpool via Runcorn or Birmingham via Crewe would connect the airport better to the surrounding region.

I saw an old Eastern Region timetable on Railway World recently which showed non-stop services from Cambridge to Kings Cross even in the 50s

Not that I'd be fined, but I read the Disputes page often and I know that you have to use the next departing train with an advance ticket. I told the Avanti staffer I had an Advance to Blackpool, he told me I had to get the slow train. I THINK I might have asked if I could get the fast one...

I was told my Avanti staff at Euston to get the Birmingham train

The Blackpool trains are marked men. I was booked on the direct Euston to Blackpool last October. Left home in a hurry to get to the station in time, checked before I left, train on time. Great. Got to Euston and it was as cancelled as cancelled can be. To make things worse, because I was on an...

You could Crossrail it. I remember seeing some drawings on London Reconnections of what a great separated junction could look like for Crossrails to reach the GW/GCR joint line. You can then, maybe, use the intermediate stations at Sudbury and Northolt Park on the GCR proper as some sort of...

I think it's so far it would have to be more of a proper light-rail system rather than a tram. Even maybe an Underground.

Interesting that the LMS didn't consider electrification over Shap for that matter. 1712512845 Yes, the Charwelton Microwave mast. Interestingly, BT's microwave transmission route, well one of them, essentially followed the Great Central out of London. Starting at the BT tower, then heading to...

Agree with OP. There's still too many half hourly services on the Metro network which need to be increased again. Same with South Eastern and their half hourly Victoria to Orpington service.

I’ve seen that plan too but don’t have time to find a source - but he is correct.

Yes I’d be more interested in hearing about the Woodford Halse electrification scheme. Someone mentioned it on here quite recently, having read about it in a train magazine from the 1930s I believe.