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« Reply #120 on: May 20, 2021, 00:07:48 » |
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Today (Wednesday 19th) the siding finally opened to receive guests - a few days after other hospitality venues. I've got some pictures, which will have to wait until tomorrow. They show what crew access to a siding looks like now, under the latest agreement with ASLEF» .
The visitor was a pair of 707s, running as 5Z41 from Waterloo and then, after lunch, as 5Y68 to Wimbledon Park Depot Sidings. It ran as if for training, calling like a passenger service (until reversing at Twickenham), which does seem odd for 707s. It came out of the siding at walking pace, which might be standard practice or it might be because it was the first test use.
From now on there is a late afternoon Q path in the WTT▸ , from Staines Up Loop to Reading, for reasons that are hardly clear. But no operational use has yet been timetabled. Both Traksy and OTT▸ showed the siding before his, but neither has a berth in it even now - the departing train just appeared from nowhere in Wokingham P2.
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« Reply #121 on: May 20, 2021, 01:34:05 » |
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Good to see it open, it's a 15mph siding, so probably just taking it cautiously.
Regarding a proper berth for it, you may well see one when the area is resignalled (2024?) but not before.
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« Reply #122 on: May 20, 2021, 22:54:37 » |
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Here is what a proper siding, and the walking route to it, looks like these days. The new fence seems to have been a bit of an afterthought, and wasn't finished when AmcoGiffen took their site office away (they are still doing some sort of landscaping to it). And a bit of work was going on today; by the look of it some of those lights needed redoing. Given how many there are, it wouldn't be a big fraction of them.
By the way, I'm not really suggesting that improving safety isn't worthwhile - just that it has a cost, and in this case it contributes only marginally to operational performance.
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« Reply #123 on: May 21, 2021, 07:13:13 » |
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Here is what a proper siding, and the walking route to it, looks like these days. The new fence seems to have been a bit of an afterthought, and wasn't finished when AmcoGiffen took their site office away (they are still doing some sort of landscaping to it). And a bit of work was going on today; by the look of it some of those lights needed redoing. Given how many there are, it wouldn't be a big fraction of them.
By the way, I'm not really suggesting that improving safety isn't worthwhile - just that it has a cost, and in this case it contributes only marginally to operational performance.
The fence has more to do with crime reduction than public safety, when trains are berthed in the siding there is a high risk of graffiti. It will not have been an after though it would have been part of the formal design for the siding, it is also likely that boundary fence reinforcement has or will be carried out elsewhere |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #124 on: December 03, 2021, 14:02:22 » |
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Has anyone seen anything using this siding in anger yet?
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« Reply #125 on: December 03, 2021, 18:04:47 » |
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The same question occurred to me on Tuesday when I noted to patina of rust on the rails when I passed it on the way to Guildford!
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« Reply #126 on: December 03, 2021, 18:15:54 » |
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It has been used a couple of times in connection with rolling stock failures.
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« Reply #127 on: December 03, 2021, 18:41:33 » |
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Has anyone seen anything using this siding in anger yet?
The only thing I can recall seeing parked there is the odd RHTT▸ . |
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« Reply #128 on: December 04, 2021, 08:07:51 » |
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The same question occurred to me on Tuesday when I noted to patina of rust on the rails when I passed it on the way to Guildford!
It is posible the siding is for perturbation, and as turnback use during engineering possessions also as a cripple siding |
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« Reply #129 on: February 03, 2022, 20:02:08 » |
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Note the date ... so it's nearly five years on, and the local papers (as well as the borough) announce that the road and bridge have been granted planning approval (no. 172934).
Since approval, work on this bridge and a little bit of linking road has proceeded with very little reporting. Apart from none of us going out much, it's probably relevant that it was hard to get there - no road access. But it did open on 24th January, as unreported in the local paper. As built, it replaces the level crossing in Waterloo Road, which was already closed for the new junction (roundabout) to be built but that will now be permanent. However, that's not a route of any use to me going to or from home, so it'd need a special visit to get there. Another bit of de facto ring road is planned that would make it more useful, but that has not even got to the full planning application stage. |
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« Reply #130 on: May 05, 2022, 06:52:07 » |
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Went up over the new Waterloo Road bridge which is open, didn't go further (having just done a circuit of Bracknell). The Easthampstead Road crossing had a massive tail back, so I assume that the Waterloo Road project isn't finished.
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« Reply #131 on: December 26, 2022, 23:31:02 » |
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I did question why this long access platform was built at our siding. Well, now we know! It's a working platform for the local freelance paint contractors to work from*.
You might also ponder why, having picked an out-of-depot siding that is monitored - overlooked by a signal box staffed 24/7 - they put a train there on the only day (or two) of the year when the box is closed.
* and at such very affordable rates, too.
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« Reply #132 on: December 27, 2022, 10:11:48 » |
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Oh dear. Still, it’s a testing time for graffiti artists due to price rises. Maybe it would have been a better idea to stable some 769s there and hand out some free crayons?
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« Reply #133 on: December 27, 2022, 10:17:33 » |
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I was literally just about to post at least GWR▸ let them practise on 769s, not brand new 701s.
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« Reply #134 on: January 10, 2023, 09:01:47 » |
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I noticed coming through Wokingham this morning there was a graffitied train in the siding. Is that the same one?
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