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Future of Wimbledon depot
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Snow1964
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Wimbledon is (in railway terms), not that old.
It was built on site of the Durnsford Road power station which had been built for the initial electrification schemes
Wimbledon Park is older, and not fully used nowadays as most of its sidings are limited in length (the site is roughly triangular), the ones nearest Durnsford Road can only take 4 or 5 cars. These are not going to be of any use when 10car fixed formation is the norm.
I‘m not sure if removing some sidings would help to get more 10-car ones (and there are 3 sidings parallel with the Wimbledon Park Line) Ideally need to take over the site of Industrial building in Durnsford Road, extend all the sidings to 12 car, and raft over whole site. Would be much more useful as undercover stabling / cleaning location (similar to the Central line sidings under Westfield).
I think part of the indecision is a proposal to use part as a crossrail 2 worksite / compound (if that ever happens)
It was built on site of the Durnsford Road power station which had been built for the initial electrification schemes
Wimbledon Park is older, and not fully used nowadays as most of its sidings are limited in length (the site is roughly triangular), the ones nearest Durnsford Road can only take 4 or 5 cars. These are not going to be of any use when 10car fixed formation is the norm.
I‘m not sure if removing some sidings would help to get more 10-car ones (and there are 3 sidings parallel with the Wimbledon Park Line) Ideally need to take over the site of Industrial building in Durnsford Road, extend all the sidings to 12 car, and raft over whole site. Would be much more useful as undercover stabling / cleaning location (similar to the Central line sidings under Westfield).
I think part of the indecision is a proposal to use part as a crossrail 2 worksite / compound (if that ever happens)
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Aictos
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"Stabbing point" ? -(typo I guess)
Well it is London... Need I say more?
Not exactly the posh end of Wimbledon either.
swt_passenger
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It definitely is not a full depot, it’s a fan of 10 x 10 car stabling sidings with CET emptying plant. The access line is from the west end of the site via a wash plant. There's also a staff and traincrew building at the east end.
Eastwestjct
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Also worth noting that some of sidings at Strawberry Hill and Staines can only handle 8 cars. Given the entire Windsor line and sub fleet will be 5 or 10 car. You soon realise that a siding that use to hold 8 can only now hold 5. So effectively you need more sidings.
Even with Feltham SWR are still not blessed with siding space.
Even with Feltham SWR are still not blessed with siding space.
Deepgreen
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Exactly - I wonder why the drama over its future? The removal of a particular class of train doesn't render the entire facility useless. Nice to see the old marshalling yard area being re-used for a railway purpose. My late father spent many a happy day in his youth visiting the signal box there and fuelling his interest for his later career as a signalling engineer.
Deepgreen
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It's a shame Micheldever is so far from the suburban area - it could be revived as stabling otherwise.
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