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[email protected] · May 1st 10, 09:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Paul Terry) wrote:

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(Mizter T) wrote:

No - what I meant was that this proposed solution is only possible
because of the (essentially unused) middle road / centre track
between platforms 2 and 3 - if it wasn't there, then the whole plan
wouldn't be feasible.

I vaguely recall wondering what was the point of it when I was a child.
I suspect it became mostly redundant at electrification.

I think it was used for goods trains that needed to reverse into
Kensington sidings - mostly milk trains from the South West that
came via East Putney. The reversal was needed because there was no
access to Kensington sidings from the west and the central road
allowed the reversal to take place without blocking the passenger
lines.

That would be consistent with my recollections, I agree. I'd forgotten
about freight. I recall milk trains in platform 1 at Vauxhall but maybe
they used to sit in Kensington sidings too.

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Colin Rosenstiel