Trains via East Putney

[infobleep]

See my answer in post #2. It hasn't always been just Basingstoke trains anyway, until quite recently one of the passenger services each day was the 0105 to Southampton, FX (i.e. Mon - Thur).

Cheers. For some reason I thought that if Basingstoke drivers sign it, it would be Basingstoke services going that way and not others. Of course Basingstoke drivers can drive other trains and might even have route knowledge of other lines south.

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[danhenkes]

The Basingstoke's have a strong chance of going that way still?

I heard before it used to be the better way of doing it, as on London Overnighters I used to try that 0042 Surbiton, which was booked that way but wasn't guaranteed.

I tried it about 6-7 times on different nights (back in 2011 or so mind) and gave up, as it was just straight through Earlsfield and sit around at Wimbledon. never re-attempted that run since

You got a fair amount of weekly engineering possessions which mean the train gets diverted via the mains. Only late starts and early finishes meaning that there are generally a small amount of trains that get regularly diverted. I work in the planning dept and the amount of times I've had to divert that train via the mainline or otherwise is quite insane. Your best bet, if you still want to do it is check real time trains for a path that is running as booked

 

[Dr_Paul]

As luck would have it, I arrived at Waterloo just after 23.00 last night (30 June), and the next train to Surbiton was the 23.12. It was on the Windsor lines side, and it duly went through to platform 6 at Clapham Junction, where it stopped to pick up, then went off at Point Pleasant on the spur up to East Putney. As we went slowly along it, the track is notably rough-riding, the guard announced that we'd be travelling via East Putney, which I found interesting even if none of the passengers around me did. We then ambled along to Wimbledon, crossed over to the up slow on platform 5, then across to the down fast. The timetable shows it as taking eight minutes longer than the 22.12, which also picks up at Clapham Junction but takes the normal route.

 

[TEW]

More services than normal have been going via East Putney Monday-Thursday this week. From just after Midnight the direct route via Earlsfield has been closed.

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sea...0/0200-0159?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt&toc=SW

 

[Taunton]

I can remember going to the "District Line tube" station at Southfields on this line in the 1970s. Not only was it entirely signed only as a BR station, no LT posters or map, but the sole BR member of staff on duty had very little in the way of ticket stock to LT points, and I had to have a BR paper ticket written out. There was a chalk board to one side with the remnants of a scrawled notice that the ticket office had been closed and to pay at destination. I wonder how effectively the revenue went back to London Transport, who had long provided the only service there, and why it took so long for them to take over the intermediate stations that only they served.

 

[glbotu]

I can remember going to the "District Line tube" station at Southfields on this line in the 1970s. Not only was it entirely signed only as a BR station, no LT posters or map, but the sole BR member of staff on duty had very little in the way of ticket stock to LT points, and I had to have a BR paper ticket written out. There was a chalk board to one side with the remnants of a scrawled notice that the ticket office had been closed and to pay at destination. I wonder how effectively the revenue went back to London Transport, who had long provided the only service there, and why it took so long for them to take over the intermediate stations that only they served.

It used to be like that at East Putney up to the early 90s, with a Network Southeast TVM and everything.

 

[gazr]

Getting the connection into P7 from the District line is the hard part, as I believe now the points need clipping. There were several blockades at Wimbledon earlier this year that resulted in trains running via East Putney early Sunday mornings. Trains starting at Wimbledon departed P4 instead of P5. Trains from Waterloo ran through P5 then XO West Wimbledon Junction. One Sunday for one hour only, trains ran into 7, as frequency of London bound trains blocked platform 5 presumably.