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A week last Tuesday, at about 3:00pm, I was amazed to see that I was about to catch a Kensington Olympia train... from Victoria!

Ken | 22.12.13 - 7:24 a.m. | #

I've seen that too.

Apparently three District line trains (using H&C stock) run from Olympia to Plaistow every weekday, departing at 1014, 1214 and 1414, then run back to Olympia again departing Plaistow at 1118, 1318 and 1518.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 22.12.13 - 7:58 a.m. | #

The 3 district line trains that run twix Kensington (Olympia) and Plaistow are for training drivers on the new 7 car "S" stock trains, when early next year all training is done, this service will no longer run.

Bob | 22.12.13 - 8:44 a.m. | #

Ah, thanks - I saw one of those trains in the bay platform at Plaistow last Thursday morning and thought it a bit odd (not least as I thought that West Ham had largely replaced Plaistow as a place for trains from the west to stop short)....and maybe an hour later saw a train on the District line platform at Edgware Road showing a destination of Olympia too. Also unexpected.

Dominic H | 22.12.13 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Thanks DG. I've just been able to use information about the Kingsland Viaduct in a short piece I'm writing about my ancestors in 1870s Hoxton!

CornishCockney | 22.12.13 - 9:34 a.m. | #

I got on the S7 Stock Olympia special at Earl's Court a couple of weeks ago, when it happened to pull up at the platform as I was standing there and I jumped on out of sheer curiosity. The only other people on the train were a couple of people for whom English was clearly not their first language, who hopefully asked me as the train was well under way if it was going to Bayswater. Oh dear.

I've also seen it travelling in the opposite direction, at Embankment. I told Geofftech about that one shortly after I'd seen it, but he didn't believe me!

swirlythingy | Homepage | 22.12.13 - 11:59 a.m. | #

And just in case you are thinking of making a quick pointless journey on the S stock training runs to Olympia - they don't necessary come back again. Which is especially annoying for the lost tourists who catch it by mistake.

At least one of the services then heads off, I think, to Lillie Bridge Depot.

Pedantic of Purley | 22.12.13 - 12:22 p.m. | #

Dear departed Broad Street always fascinated me. Funny how various of the northern City stations had that air of melancholy such as Barbican.

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Moquette | 22.12.13 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Of course these days you are not stranded if your accidentally get an Olympia train and it doesn't go back again - Overground one stop to West Brompton or Shepherds Bush will get you back on the Underground again

timbo | 22.12.13 - 1:20 p.m. | #

Don't forget Mansion House had 4 platforms with a second bay road to the north of the present EB. It was only bricked off in the late-1980s.

Kim | 22.12.13 - 2:29 p.m. | #

Broad Street is referenced in the Album and (now forgotten) film by Sir Paul McCartney called "Give My Regards To Broad Street" from 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_My_Regards_to_Broad_Street_%28film%29

kissenme | 23.12.13 - 10:36 a.m. | #











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