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  1. Zomboid
    If that doesn't work, I'd replace the whole thing with 2 bits of 3x1 with track laid along them, or something like that. Should be very lightweight and easy to handle, if not terribly scenic...
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    Could you hinge the lift out section either downwards or sideways?
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    That's a traction substation, not a relay room as described. Loads of them on the Brighton, Portsmouth, Reading and Alton lines.
  4. Zomboid
    Just call it Limehouse Basin and imagine that the LTS went to Liverpool St (and that the Junction Road Junction lines faced towards St Pancras so the LTS trains could go there as well). In that scenario there's no Fenchurch Street, and you can have a route towards the city that isn't successful in this era because it doesn't quite get there, and hence it's a branch line.
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    Or maybe not so temporary, if TfL ends up taking over the whole inner suburban network, as has been reported.
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    Lots of people with no orange or hard hats. For a photo op like this it's all about the "orange army" business.Good job NR doesn't work in Northern Ireland...
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    I'd have called it Crossrail Line 1, to make it clear that line 2 is also required. Much like the way HS1 stands as a testament to the need for HS2...
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    How about something around Roding, which is the river that becomes Barking Creek and flows into the Thames opposite Thamesmead. Could represent the end of the GOB line and a slightly different North Woolwich line with your two different routes.
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    Or not arrived yet. The North Woolwich line has been partly taken over by the DLR, but didn't close as a "main line" route until 2006.
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    With regard to what you'd replace things with, what would BR have done with the shed/ turntable by your era? If the line was electrified, chances are every platform would have been fitted, so I would recommend fitting it to all platforms and the mains. You've got a good opportunity here to take some 50s infrastructure and wind the clock forward, I would be sure to think about what changes would have occurred under BR in that time.
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    So how does it compare aesthetically with LGV OLE? HS1 for example has to handle 190mph with 2 pans, and I believe TGVs run in pairs, too. That's probably the closest comparison I can think of. Though I guess the amount of 4 track on those routes is limited to loops such as at Singlewell.
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    Looks better to me, but then I'm a less is more guy when it comes to track. But have you stripped out too much play value? (2 points and 6 wagons is enough for me, but I suspect that wouldn't last long in this particular shed). And what was I saying about rationalisation? It'll be the pencarne bypass by April, mark my words.
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    I haven't tried it myself, but if the gutter is more flexible than the track, the adhesive will only have a fixed lifespan due to the constant movement/ bending as you handle it.
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    I know I said district line, but if it were me and I wanted to run tube trains I'd look to run A stock, since that did actually run in short 4-car formations on the ELL and Chesham branch. Or the old central line 4 car to Ongar. And if you want a really stupid idea from the wrong timescale, send the DLR into platform 1. I've never heard of anyone modelling that system...
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    Freight cars is my weakness. I buy junk to use as weathering practise, but haven't yet been brave enough...
  16. Zomboid
    Could even have platform 1 as a district line backwater, like Olympia is/has been. No idea if suitable trains at readily available, mind.
  17. Zomboid
    Something down Beckton way would be quite credible for a DMU operated backwater. More so than a 3rd rail backwater actually, as there were very few of those in the London area.
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    It would no doubt have the wrong size rails, spaced the wrong distance apart, and would create headaches for those who want to alter the length.Not sure what proportion of purchasers would have those problems though.
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    Fabulously simple, yet plenty of fun to be had. Love it, just the kind of thing I'd want to build.
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    From the aerial photography it doesn't look like a triangle would be impossible at Ruddington. And if they build that NRM thing at Leicester who knows... Turning facilities at both ends would be nice, but not essential. The Ffestiniog/ WHR sort of has a junction at porthmadog harbour, and there is a definite junction further up the line between the WHR and the WHR(P).
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    I thought Gordon was a Gresley loco, based on the firebox shape. Think he got on all right when Flying Scotsman visited but didn't like City of Truro. Anyway, back in the room.
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    Not long until its rationalised into a long siding from the main line, and then in a couple of weeks it'll be the A3471 Pencarne Bypass, complete with speed cameras and summer traffic jams.
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    Well Gordon was always the awkward type...
  24. Zomboid
    Dead end turntables existed, nine elms being the example I can think of. Maybe incorrectly, but that might be a place to start looking at and seeing how it can be compressed...
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    Yeah, I was thinking of another gate in the old city walls. Another distinctly London suffix could give Paltry Circus. And hence an excuse to run that elephant on a flatcar that you've always wanted to (Oxford, Piccadilly, Finsbury circuses (circi? Circodes?) all spring to mind).
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