Central Line Midnight Special

[GospelOak117]

Hi, I took the last Eastbound Central Line to Epping last night and when I boarded the train at Holborn it said there was also a Special due about 15 mins later.....can anybody please confirm whether this is just an ECS move, a tunnel cleaning train or the start of a horror movie for person who decides to wait back for it...as i nearly did!

Where does it go!?

Thanks

 

[causton]

Looking at the Working Timetables, was it 0033-ish? If so, there's nothing after you through the tunnels at all! Perhaps it's something terminating at White City that the signalling is predicting could run through, but it isn't...

 

[Julian G]

Hi, I took the last Eastbound Central Line to Epping last night and when I boarded the train at Holborn it said there was also a Special due about 15 mins later.....can anybody please confirm whether this is just an ECS move, a tunnel cleaning train or the start of a horror movie for person who decides to wait back for it...as i nearly did!

Where does it go!?

Thanks

Possibly an Engineer's Train.

 

[GospelOak117]

yea 00.33 was definately the passenger train I boarded. Yea it must be an engineers train or something....maybe that old 1962 stock train heading off to Woodford for the night?

 

[12CSVT]

maybe that old 1962 stock train heading off to Woodford for the night?

So it was a ghost train ?

Seriously though, they tend to show any non-passenger trains as specials (ECS, engineers trains etc)

 

[Daniel]

That would have been:

Train No. 570 Locomotive, two hopper wagons, implement wagon, tamping machine, implement wagon and locomotive (maximum length 115m)
(a) Outward Path:
Leave Ruislip depot 23.56, run to Ruislip Gardens, follow Train 111 (23:53½ ex West Ruislip) to west of North Acton Junction, follow Train 11 (00:12 ex Ealing Broadway) to White City, run to west of Leytonstone, follow Train 106 (00.57 ex Leytonstone) to Barkingside.