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By "North Western Railway", I presume that TfL mean "National Rail".

The Bakerloo and Met lines interact with Network Rail's "North West and Central" region so the odd term makes some sense there. However, they have the District at Barking and East Putney interacting with "NWR", which is hard to come up with an explanation for beyond them mucking up.

Si | 07.10.22 - 12:13 p.m. | #

I remember being very impressed when travelling on a Q stock farewell train in the 1970's that having come from Liverpool Street, we joined the East London line via a curve around Whitechapel. I assume that connection went when London Overground took over.

ap | 07.10.22 - 12:35 p.m. | #

How do engineering trains access the central line these days?

Malcolm of Kent | 07.10.22 - 12:35 p.m. | #

A surprisingly short list considering that many others used to exist, and why were they not left just in case they became useful. Carto metro shows the Ruislip depot link still in place.

Kev | 07.10.22 - 12:39 p.m. | #

Malcolm, given that the Transplant depot is at Ruislip Depot, the question is more how do engineering trains access the rest of the network without the Met line link?

Putters | 07.10.22 - 12:51 p.m. | #

Ruislip Depot is still used as the connection between the Metropolitan/Piccadilly lines and the Central by means of a reversing siding.

ThameslinkUser | 07.10.22 - 12:54 p.m. | #

Clive's Underground Line Guides still lists the link between National Rail and Central Line via Ruislip Depot as well.

The page was last modified on 2022-04-10.

Still Anon | 07.10.22 - 12:59 p.m. | #

Carto.metro shows a siding that can back into the depot, also on OpenRailwayMap.

Sprout Eater | 07.10.22 - 1:13 p.m. | #

So, assuming full signalling compatibility and an infinite charge capacity, how many stations could a battery operated locomotive run through using these access points? Would it be greater or fewer than DG's loop on Monday's post?

Jamesthegill | 07.10.22 - 1:18 p.m. | #

Si - I had assumed that the reference to NWR at Queen's Park somehow hadn't been updated since the pre-Grouping days of the LNWR -- but I don't think that squares with the rest of the references.

Anonymous | 07.10.22 - 1:27 p.m. | #

Jamesthegill - If visiting the same station twice is permitted, you could run to every station (since omitting the W&C doesn't matter).

Anonymous | 07.10.22 - 1:29 p.m. | #

There were proposals to extend the Central line to Uxbridge but sadly this never happened. It would have been good for Uxbridge because the central line is by far the quickest tube into London from the Ruislip area

Jason | 07.10.22 - 1:37 p.m. | #

Bakerloo Line trains cannot go north of Harrow & Wealdstone under their own "steam" as the electrification changes from the fourth rail underground system to Network Rail third rail standard.

Vectisian | 07.10.22 - 5:39 p.m. | #

NWR means NetWork Rail, not North Western Railway. The Met is definitely not connected to either old or new North Western Railway!

Man of Kent | 07.10.22 - 5:42 p.m. | #

I'm just copying what they said.
NWR = Network Rail would a lot more sense.

TfL FoI requests are not always answered by the infallible.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.22 - 5:48 p.m. | #

Sprout Eater - Many thanks for the link to OpenRailwayMap - brilliant!

John Simmons | 07.10.22 - 7:29 p.m. | #

The Victoria Line 2009 stock are too fat to fit on the Piccadilly Line unlike the previous 1967 stock, so won't be going anywhere else other than their own line and depot!

Mikey C | 07.10.22 - 9:55 p.m. | #

North Western Railway? I presume someone must have seen the abbreviation NWR and guessed what it meant? How about 'NetWork Rail'?

Greg | 11.10.22 - 8:30 p.m. | #











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