Where was Aldin Siding in Slough?

[Tallpaul69]

Aldin Siding is mentioned in 1950s/60s WTTs and Carriage Diagrams as a siding near Slough Station in which parcels trains were held to allow faster trains to pass and two three car DMUs were stabled overnight. This location is differentiated in the carriage diagrams from the carriage shed, the East Sidings, and R and M Depot which were also listed as overnight stabling for DMU sets.

Was it the loop off the west bound main line to the west of the junction of the Windsor branch, or the through loop adjacent to the Engineers depot?

Many thanks for any information 

Paul

[Rugd1022]

I think it may have been the refuge siding / loading doack trailing off the Down Main just to the east of the station - I'm sure Mike / SM will be able to confirm / put me right on that.

[The Stationmaster]

Spot on Nidge - Aldin's Siding was indeed on the Down Main side just east of the station and was regularly used for DMU stabling in the early-mid 1960s (in fact one idiot in the Train Office at Reading using cuttings for notice c.1969/70 showed a couple of sets to stable there for some special traffic event - he had a very red face when the rest of us in the office pointed out to him that the sidings had been recovered about 6-9 months previously.  they are shown on the notice extract below as Down Main Sidings but I can't recall anybody ever calling them that!

 

The Slough East Middle Sidings were the ones named as 'East Sidings'.

 

http://www.signallingnotices.org.uk/scans/268/Image0011.jpg

Edited October 19, 2018 by The Stationmaster

[Tallpaul69]

Spot on Nidge - Aldin's Siding was indeed on the Down Main side just east of the station and was regularly used for DMU stabling in the early-mid 1960s (in fact one idiot in the Train Office at Reading using cuttings for notice c.1969/70 showed a couple of sets to stable there for some special traffic event - he had a very red face when the rest of us in the office pointed out to him that the sidings had been recovered about 6-9 months previously.  they are shown on the notice extract below as Down Main Sidings but I can't recall anybody ever calling them that!

 

The Slough East Middle Sidings were the ones named as 'East Sidings'.

 

http://www.signallingnotices.org.uk/scans/268/Image0011.jpg

 

Thanks Guys, your replies are really useful!!

[PenrithBeacon]

So why was it called Aldin’s Siding?

[Del]

So why was it called Aldin’s Siding?

I'd also be interested to know, seeing as when I lived in Slough we lived on Aldin Avenue.

[Rivercider]

So why was it called Aldin’s Siding?

A quick google for 'Slough history aldin' shows that there was an Aldin House, located in that area.

It became St Michaels School in 1869, and subsequently in 1897 was bought and renamed St Bernards, which still exists,

 

edit - and looking at Old Maps, back in the 1800s, there had been a brick works with a siding on the down side in that location, perhaps the name dates back that far?  

 

cheers

Edited October 21, 2018 by Rivercider

[Rugd1022]

In this Jon Stubley shot of D7026 heading away from the camera back light to Old Oak on 5/4/74 the site of Aldin Siding is the grassy area on the right, next to the Down Main...

 

 

 

[Tallpaul69]

ryone. I was unsure whether Aldin refered to Aldin House or Cecil Aldin the 1870 Slough born artist!

[TheSignalEngineer]

There is a report in the local paper concerning a fatal accident to a shunter whilst moving carriages from Aldin's Siding to the station platform in September 1894.