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Thanks for the post DG. Brought back memories of when I lived in Cricklewood and used to travel up and down the Edgware branch a couple of times a day as a Guard on the Northern.
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Didn't the LMS/BR have a signalbox called Silk Stream, or was it sidings?
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Just checked - it was Silkstream Junction, the junction still exists even though the signalbox doesn't.
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I love "emblandening". How am I going to work that into my conversation today?
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Four months? Really? How Time flies!
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More rivers, less Bow bus stops!
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Ah, my childhood stomping ground! I went to Deansbrook School, played in the Deans Brook at the bottom of West Way/Farm Road (I always thought that too was the Silk Stream!) and remember when it flooded Burnt Oak in the late 1970 or early 1980s.
According to my dad the hut in Montrose Park is an engine shed. I always thought it was a spur from the Northern Line in WW2 when it was an aerodrome (because you can clearly see it from the southbound trains!), but this link says it was instead a spur of the Midland railway servicing the Hendon Factory in WW1! http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/hendon_factory_platform/ |
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There once were "Silkstream Sidings". Roughly where the M1 crosses the Midland main line on the up side. I think that at the end they were used for unloading (or loading) rubble or scrap but I could be wrong. It was a long time ago. Early 60s? I do remember that the sidings were used for making a POW escape film. The company must have been filming on the cheap because they just painted swastikas on some coal trucks and an ordinary BR steam loco normally used for commuter trains, an act which greatly offended my train spotting friends.
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Infinitely more interesting than bus stops in bow. Excellent article.
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Cheers! You're still going to get updates on bus stops in Bow, though.
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Looks like I, who happens to be visiting London for the first time, have to decide which to visit (the stream or the bus stop) a few days later :P
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Great post as always DG. I lived in Colindale until I was 26 years old. I do not recognise the place now. The building of high rise flats all over the place is truly bonkers. What used to be a quiet N/W London suburb is now turning into a city of thousands of people...with 19th century infrastructure. Colindale Station still has an island platform, the same as when it was opened in 1924. The Edgware Road has not been widened since it was built. Now there is going to be even more housing as the police have sold off their recreation ground. As much as I loved the place as a child thank God I moved away.
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