Still there last time I looked on Googlemaps!I’m sure Battersby has a run round loop and locally operated ground frame
Still there last time I looked on Googlemaps!I’m sure Battersby has a run round loop and locally operated ground frame
Not sure but think they are soon to be removed shortly.There are 2 at Hull, one between P2 and P3, and one between P6 and P7
Not sure but think they are soon to be removed shortly.
Where do we draw the line? If you include any station with crossovers beyond each end, there must be lots. Both East and West Croydon come to my mind, and Wimbledon (without involving the depot). Morden and Golders Green at either end of the LU Northern Line tunnel have loops (neither involving the depots). Whether there are the shunt signals for the movement is another matter, Multiple units don't need loops, but engineering trains might.I just wondered how many stations are there left where it is possible for a locomotive to change ends of the train?
Quite, but "run-around loop" in the hread title is much more restrictive: it suggests track that is there for that sole purpose. I think engine release crossovers come within the spirit of the title too.To be fair trains can be run round at many stations with signalling and crossovers either end.
Quite, but "run-around loop" in the hread title is much more restrictive: it suggests track that is there for that sole purpose. I think engine release crossovers come within the spirit of the title too.
Used to do this at Barnstaple after the loop in the platform was removed.Was Blackpool North unique in the way the loco pushed the stock into the carriage sidings, ran round then pushed it back into the station. Then being ready for the off?
Good few in Scotland.
Wick, Thurso, Kyle, Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Oban, Fort William, Mallaig.
Dundee has a loop that was used to split off Platform 1 from 1s (the southbound sleeper used to use it to loop a Dundee terminator back in the day), though I doubt think this was used for loco run arounds due to it's awkward position for such purposes.
Which platforms at Lime Street? I don’t remember that. All north and south Pennines, and trains to / from Preston and beyond, were shunt released in the 1980s. As were electric services from Euston. I can’t remember about cross country, but would have thought they were too.
Yes that is what I will settle on. There are the centre roads at Birmingham New Street - assuming they are still there as I last looked about 1978 !. Even had cab/loco rides end to end there in the 1970s. Cabbed a Western on platform 1 D1067 - that is when i got a fondness for the beautiful machines waiting at New St for the next train from Paddington and hoping it would be a Western not a duff !. End to end on an 86 (or 81-85) - that is when the inter regional trains would arrive from the South West (from Bristol etc) with a 46 on and then the train would go back out North west towards Manchester with an electric on, that is unless the 46 went onwards to the North East (Derby etc).
And therefore, for an identical reason, Bodmin Parkway!Cholsey platform 5 has one for the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. while the line is completely separate to the main line, the station is National Rail, so might count!
This might sound a daft question. ( Sorry if it's in the wrong thread) If the steam train that runs Fort William to Mallaig and back is travelling bunker / tender first on one journey but not the other. Does it have a different speed limit going towards Mallaig?
Fairly certain the line limit is 40 anyway, so tender first isn't an issue!Yes it normally runs boiler end first (ie the "normal" way round) from Fort Wiiliam to Mallaig then returns tender first. From memory the speed limit for the steam specials are 40mph max both ways, with some slower stretches.
Fairly certain the line limit is 40 anyway, so tender first isn't an issue!
And Princes Risborough and Alton too. Unless these would be excluded by virtue of the fences along the platforms.And therefore, for an identical reason, Bodmin Parkway!
Fairly certain the line limit is 40 anyway, so tender first isn't an issue!
They are, I was working there yesterday, some material for track replacement has been dumped in the disused Platform 1
Was Blackpool North unique in the way the loco pushed the stock into the carriage sidings, ran round then pushed it back into the station. Then being ready for the off?
I always found it a little strange as there was often a spare loco located by the signal box. Was it due to train lengths - would the lines be blocked with a loco at each end?
Pretty sure they did that at Llandudno also.
Nice picture! There were loco-hauled mail trains every night, so I would assume it was those in the main.London Bridge definitely used to have a loop at the end of platform 13 to release locomotives. Don't know whether it survived the remodel (I doubt it some how). Finally managed to find a picture, knew I wasn't going mad!
As an aside, any idea what trains would of used this & why?
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