"Sharon & Gordon Thomson" wrote in message ...
Anyone tell me anything about the stretch of line which links the District
with the East London Line? Is it entirely in tunnel and double-tracked? How
long is it? Where does it branch off from the District and where does it
join the East London? Has its use always been restricted to one train in one
direction at a time because of tight clearance? Has anyone on the group
travelled it over it? And where else on LU are there similar non-passenger
stretches to allow for stock transfers etc.?

0.46km long, runs between Whitechapel Junction (a little south of the
ELL station) to St Mary's Junction (a little west of the District
Whitechapel station).

Other transfer lines at:
Kings Cross (Picadilly - Northern)
Baker St (Bakerloo - Jubilee, once passenger-carrying when the
Stanmore branch was Bakerloo)
Finsbury Park (Picadilly - Victoria)
and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

PhilD

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(PhilD) wrote in message om...
Finsbury Park (Picadilly - Victoria)

And which AFAIK is the only place on the deep level tube lines where trains
from different lines run side by side underground and can have a "race"
albeit for only a short distance before the tunnels diverge again.

and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

That was a foot interchange , it wasn't a physical link between the actual
lines. That was at east finchley.

B2003

Wasn't there a connection from just north of Drayton Park up to the GN main
line, and thence to the Northern at Highgate/Finchley, which was used for
stock transfers up till the late 50's when the BR freight connection was
closed?

From then until the transfer of the GN&C to BR in the 70's, how was LT stock
on the Moorgate line moved for major overhauls?


"Boltar" wrote in message
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(PhilD) wrote in message
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Finsbury Park (Picadilly - Victoria)

And which AFAIK is the only place on the deep level tube lines where
trains
from different lines run side by side underground and can have a "race"
albeit for only a short distance before the tunnels diverge again.

and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

That was a foot interchange , it wasn't a physical link between the actual
lines. That was at east finchley.

B2003

As I remember, after using the link to Finsbury Prk Main Line, it then went
via KX York Rd (Hotel Curve on the return) and Widened Lines to Farringdon,
where it shunted across to Circle, and then to Neasden.
Obviously, this was done under Battery Loco motive power.

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Lawrence Myers



"Gunslinger" wrote in message
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Wasn't there a connection from just north of Drayton Park up to the GN
main
line, and thence to the Northern at Highgate/Finchley, which was used for
stock transfers up till the late 50's when the BR freight connection was
closed?

From then until the transfer of the GN&C to BR in the 70's, how was LT
stock
on the Moorgate line moved for major overhauls?


"Boltar" wrote in message
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(PhilD) wrote in message
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Finsbury Park (Picadilly - Victoria)

And which AFAIK is the only place on the deep level tube lines where
trains
from different lines run side by side underground and can have a "race"
albeit for only a short distance before the tunnels diverge again.

and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

That was a foot interchange , it wasn't a physical link between the
actual
lines. That was at east finchley.

B2003

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(PhilD) wrote in message om...
and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

That was a foot interchange , it wasn't a physical link between the actual
lines. That was at east finchley.

I was under the impression that the track which *should* have become
part of the Northern Heights project, running from Finsbury Park to
Highgate, was used to transfer stock from the GN&C route, up to about
1970.

Could be wrong, would someone confirm?

PhilD

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I was under the impression that the track which *should* have become
part of the Northern Heights project, running from Finsbury Park to
Highgate, was used to transfer stock from the GN&C route, up to about
1970.

Could be wrong, would someone confirm?

PhilD


It was sometime between about 1970 and 1972, at which point I think a bridge
on the route was declared unsafe and shortly afterwards the flyover over the
ECML was demolished . At least one of the rail magazines (possibly Railway
World) has a picture of a transfer of 1938 stock taken (IIRC) at Kings Cross
published at about that time.

Also remember the "Met Link" at Ruislip. This is from Ruislip Siding on the
Met into Ruislip Central Line depot - about the most well used link by
Engineering Trains.

There is also the link at Ealing Broadway, seldom used, but Plat 7 at Ealing
Broadway still has Central Line ATP test coils fitted and maintained for
trains crossing to the Central.

BS


"PhilD" wrote in message
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"Sharon & Gordon Thomson" wrote in
message ...
Anyone tell me anything about the stretch of line which links the
District
with the East London Line? Is it entirely in tunnel and double-tracked?
How
long is it? Where does it branch off from the District and where does
it
join the East London? Has its use always been restricted to one train in
one
direction at a time because of tight clearance? Has anyone on the group
travelled it over it? And where else on LU are there similar
non-passenger
stretches to allow for stock transfers etc.?

0.46km long, runs between Whitechapel Junction (a little south of the
ELL station) to St Mary's Junction (a little west of the District
Whitechapel station).

Other transfer lines at:
Kings Cross (Picadilly - Northern)
Baker St (Bakerloo - Jubilee, once passenger-carrying when the
Stanmore branch was Bakerloo)
Finsbury Park (Picadilly - Victoria)
and, once upon a time, Finsbury Park (GN&C - Northern at Highgate).

PhilD

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