On 7 Jan 2007 16:24:57 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:


Charles Ellson wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:58:17 +0000, Stimpy
wrote:

On 7/1/07 19:18, "Paul Terry" wrote:

But their main purpose, certainly at Brixton (where the over-run tunnels
are 1200 feet in length) is to provide over-night stabling for trains so
that the service can begin with a reasonably frequent service in the
early morning without having to wait for trains to make their way from
the Northumberland Park depot.

JOOI, why can't they stable trains overnight in the Brixton platforms?

The over-run tunnels will increase the potential stabling capacity
from two trains to four but if a train is left in the platform then
that platform would not be available for reversing any trains (or, if
both platforms, that end of the line), which could include night-time
engineering trains.


And they would have to be the first trains into service, although that
probably isn't a problem.

In the last couple of years, the whole of the central section was
closed due to a problem at the bottom end and, being sure that there
are also two sidings at Victoria, I asked why they couldn't turn round
at Victoria. An LU person told me that they couldn't turn round at
Victoria any more.

Could this be true? As far as I know there are still two sidings there
as well.

I had an idea that they stabled trains in the platforms at Elephant and
Castle on the Bakerloo, which has a similar layout, but I note from
Quail that there are sidings there as well which, unlike those at
Brixton, are connected to each other.

IIRC the night-time runaway at Queens Park a few years ago had been
stabled in the platform.