On 22 Feb, 18:02, "Peter Masson" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote

Never heard of anything like that, it's very interesting. I'm now
wondering whether there were ever any other similar examples,
excluding times when engineering works or something else going wrong
necessitated it (like the recent occasions when GNER terminated at FP
- I hear it was mayhem, and I guess it was similarly chaotic at Harrow
& Wealdstone when Virgin had to stop/start short there).

I can't think of other cases where a London suburban station has been used
as the terminus of a long-distance train in regular working to avoid use of
the normal terminal station.

There have of course been other 'engineering' examples, like use of Ealing
Broadway for some trains during the 1967 resignalling of Paddington (others
diverted to Marylebone or Kensington Olympia). Summer trains to the Kent
Coast or Hastings have been known to start from Elephant & Castle or New
Cross, though I think that some of them ran ecs from the terminus.

Peter


Interesting stuff. I presume the trains that terminated at Kensington
Olympia ran down from the GWML, using the now gone West London curve
that linked the GWML and NLL? Curious readers might like to know that
the West London curve got swallowed up by the now disused Eurostar
North Pole depot - however one thing I am unclear of is whether there
was just a link from the NLL to the GWML heading west, or whether
there was ever also a link that headed east towards Paddington?

Also, I'm just pondering summer specials in the south east.
Southeastern run a morning special from Victoria to Ramsgate via
Catford, Bromley South and Margate (and presumably a few other places
along the way!), though there's no special return working. I can't
think of any others that still run.