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In case you haven't spotted it, Nick Catford has just added the Croxley and Rickmansworth branches to his Disused Stations website. It includes a feature on the triangle (including the closed curve) with some fabulous pictures I've never seen before

 

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/croxley_green_curve/index.shtml

I hadn't spotted it - and am very grateful, as my knowledge of the history of this area was very patchy indeed, despite working nearby in the late '90s. A particularly good entry in Disused Stations, even by Nick Catford's high standard.

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Thanks for that, very interesting. I have an interest (it took me to school every day) in the line as I live near it, also as part of the line will be put back into service in the next few years.

 

The Rickmansworth line is now a foot/cycle path, and a very pleasent afternoon can be had in my case cycling along it.

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Some great new photos the Watford High Street and Watford Stadium sites have been updated too - At last a photo of a Class 108 on the Croxley Green Branch and a Class 416/3 at  Watford Junction that potentially was working on the branch too! So I can happily run these units on my Croxley WRD layout!

 

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/watford_high_street/index.shtml

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/watford_stadium/index.shtml

 

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Seems you can have a class 83 too. 

 

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/croxley_green_curve/index.shtml (about half way down)

 

It might have to be a Class 81 - I had heard the rumors about AC electrics in Croxley Green and now there is evidence. The other rumor is which I have been told by 3 people was that there was a Class 504 in maroon livery in the depot!

 

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I love the Picture of 313 034 at Watford West, running as a two car unit. I did get to travel on it but have never seen a pictures of it.

 

CG501

Thanks for pointing that out - it's not highlighted in the caption and I had missed it.  I would have thought that there were some essential bits on the centre car of a 313 (other than the AC gear) that would have prevented it running without it, but evidently not.  Wonder how it got back to Bletchley? 

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Thanks for pointing that out - it's not highlighted in the caption and I had missed it.  I would have thought that there were some essential bits on the centre car of a 313 (other than the AC gear) that would have prevented it running without it, but evidently not.  Wonder how it got back to Bletchley? 

 

The centre coach PTSO was being used with the prototype EMU 456001/316999 which was used to test 3 phase AC traction motors. They made some alterations to the end of 62562 moving connections to allow through wiring, I have a copy of the mods some where.  When it had to go back to Bletchley it had to work in multiple with another unit (but not sure if it was under power).

 

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The centre coach PTSO was being used with the prototype EMU 456001/316999 which was used to test 3 phase AC traction motors. They made some alterations to the end of 62562 moving connections to allow through wiring, I have a copy of the mods some where.  When it had to go back to Bletchley it had to work in multiple with another unit (but not sure if it was under power).

 

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I was aware of and if I recall correctly saw it at Waterloo in the late 1980's;  I think you will find that it was numbered 457001/316999

 

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I was aware of and if I recall correctly saw it at Waterloo in the late 1980's;  I think you will find that it was numbered 457001/316999

 

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quite right, typo. should have read 457

 

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This looks interesting...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23443173

Brilliant. Love the idea that the present Watford station in delightful-but-remote Cassiobury Park Road (parents had friends in that road) will be "moved" to Ascot Road. This all makes enormous sense, and just shows what a joined-up London transport policy can do. Hertfordshire had been behind better use of this corridor for ages. Operations at Watford Junction on the DC side will have to become a bit more slick than they were when it was 3 trains per hour all day.

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This was a done deal a while ago and this just the final rubber stamp to the prioject.

 

I walked the whole branch form the site if the former depot last week and took lots of photos as the line has been cleared of the dense overgrowth. This year will be the last chance to walk the branch before the heavy infrastructure work starts next year.

 

I am glad that I have take lots of photos of the last few years my big regret is that I never took any when it was a working branch.

 

Nigel

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Quote..

 

Hertfordshire County Council said it would be the largest infrastructure project it had ever delivered and the first new railway line built in the county since 1925.

 

 

apart from Hitchin flyover?

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