I last posted a comment more than two years ago, and hope my rather different focus on Camden Shed will not prove an irritant to this forum, which I greatly admire.
I am trying to write a book about the past, present and future of Chalk Farm Railway Lands, essentially Camden Goods Yard and the rail system from Primrose Hill Tunnels to Euston, This is a major update on the book I wrote a decade ago, and will have far more content and none of the 'before and after' character of the previous book. I am stuck on Chapter 12 "The new grouping to the end of steam". I would like to describe the movements associated with a passenger train, eg Royal Scot, from its arrival at Euston to the start of its next run from Euston. This will describe moving, parking and preparing empty carriages; servicing, refuelling and stabling a locomotive at Camden Shed; driver accommodation, arrangements board, and perhaps a beer or two, supported by relevant images to help tell the story.
Can anyone help me with a description of a typical sequence of operations in the late 1930s? The loco would assist an engine from Willesden in banking the empty carriages from Euston, peel off at Camden Shed, await its turn on the turntable while the crew is changed, turn to face north, move under the coal stage for refuelling with coal and water, then proceed to the south end via the back road, where ash would be removed. Where to next - through the shed? I am sure I have not got this right.
I have images and plans of the MPD. One of these plans is attached and has a series of red lines that I assume represent a new arrangement of tracks, planned in 1937.
Another question is how were the carriage sheds on Camden Bank managed in conjunction with Willesden?
Peter