Unusual thing happened on Friday - my Northern line train (Bank Branch)
announced that it was terminating at Kennington, which I've not seen before.

Question is... what happened to it? It left in a southbound direction, and
AFAIK there's no 'normal' way for it to reverse or get on to the CX branch
loop.

I also noticed that three cX trains in succession also terminated there, and
came up with a wild theory that the bank train might've travelled beyond the
junction, then reversed northbound back up the CX branch, and then gone
southbound again round the loop...

Or possibly it ran empty to Tooting Broadway/Morden?

Any ideas?

BTN

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Sir Benjamin Nunn wrote:

Unusual thing happened on Friday - my Northern line train (Bank Branch)
announced that it was terminating at Kennington, which I've not seen before.

Question is... what happened to it? It left in a southbound direction, and
AFAIK there's no 'normal' way for it to reverse or get on to the CX branch
loop.

I spy with my little eye ...

http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Kennington-lkn5-8.gif

.... a reversing siding for the City branch!

Although i could be reading the map wrong.

tom

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"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
...


I spy with my little eye ...

http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Kennington-lkn5-8.gif

... a reversing siding for the City branch!

Although i could be reading the map wrong.


Hmm... interesting. And also accessible from the CX branch by the looks of
things.

Never knew about that.

BTN

In message , Sir Benjamin Nunn
writes

Unusual thing happened on Friday - my Northern line train (Bank Branch)
announced that it was terminating at Kennington, which I've not seen before.

Question is... what happened to it? It left in a southbound direction, and
AFAIK there's no 'normal' way for it to reverse or get on to the CX branch
loop.

There's a reversing siding just beyond the "Kennington Loop". See:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...069/ltkenn.gif

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Paul Terry

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
...

http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Kennington-lkn5-8.gif

... a reversing siding for the City branch!

Although i could be reading the map wrong.

You're not. You can also see it here
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...069/ltkenn.gif .

The reason the siding is rarely used is because trains using the loop don't
impede trains between Bank and Morden in either direction, but trains
between either branch and the siding impede trains between either branch and
Morden, thus limiting capacity.

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, John Rowland wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
...

http://www.trainweb.org/tubeprune/Kennington-lkn5-8.gif

... a reversing siding for the City branch!

Although i could be reading the map wrong.

You're not. You can also see it here
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...069/ltkenn.gif

The reason the siding is rarely used is because trains using the loop
don't impede trains between Bank and Morden in either direction, but
trains between either branch and the siding impede trains between either
branch and Morden, thus limiting capacity.

Also, the train has to turn round, innit.

Hang on, surely City trains reversing through the siding don't interfere
with City trains going to or from Morden? It's diverging or converging,
not conflicting. Or is that also bad?

tom

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In article ,
Tom Anderson writes
The reason the siding is rarely used is because trains using the loop
don't impede trains between Bank and Morden in either direction, but
trains between either branch and the siding impede trains between either
branch and Morden, thus limiting capacity.

Also, the train has to turn round, innit.

Well, the driver has to walk to the other end (or there has to be a
spare driver).

Hang on, surely City trains reversing through the siding don't interfere
with City trains going to or from Morden? It's diverging or converging,
not conflicting. Or is that also bad?

The train has to proceed slowly into the siding, so it blocks the line
rather longer than a train just pulling out and going into the loop.

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