BARRY HOLLAND <[email protected]> wrote: >It carries the Hounslow Loop service which is a stopping train that runs out >of Waterloo via Clapham Junction, Barnes and Brentford to Hounslow then >returns to Waterloo via Twickenham, Richmond and Clapham Junction. Or vice >versa. Plus some slightly longer distance trains to destinations including >Weybridge and the occasional Reading service. > >If you're so good at identifying obscure little lines, Martin--then what about >the branch line that splits from its larger cousin to run through Gladstone >Park in Cricklewood & Dudding [as opposed to Dudden] Hill Junction [according >to the signal box anyway] before entering the massive complex near Staples >Corner, that I believe used to be one of the biggest marshalling yards in >Europe when I was a kid? >That line runs right past my boyhood home--it would be great to see *that* >from a train! > >Incidentally, unless I now 'copy & paste', clicking on 'reply' causes my reply >to carry on across the screen ad infinitum. Just one more shortcoming of these >crap library computers. >Barry >Nb amartyrtothecause
For those of you care about this strange form of transport ... Have a look at The New Addlestrop Atlas. This amazing mapping is on the Internet (www.systemed.net/atlas), and has on it the route of almost every line ever built in many parts of the UK. The detail is fantastic (you can zoom in to see local arrangements). It especially deserves a mention here, because its proprietor is none other than Richard Fairhurst, the editor of Waterways World magazine. Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
