Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Quite a schlep from the concourse, but anything to relieve the congestion is welcome. Plus nice to be in the building after so many years...
Platform 20 at Waterloo finally opens (with five more to come)
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Starry Wisdom
no matter where you go you'll find a goonerQuite a schlep from the concourse, but anything to relieve the congestion is welcome. Plus nice to be in the building after so many years...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
yeah, you access it via platform 19. They will be opening up the other old Eurostar ones soon-ish.
Yeah, I mentioned on another thread that there was a plan to run a Heathrow Express service using the old Eurostar platforms. Unfortunately they couldn't make it work primarily due to all the level crossings on that line through South West London.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
They knocked down a large part of Staines in preparation for this, now it's not going to happen. Still, on the bright side, they knocked down a large part of Staines
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Question is... will a single jumper or accident cause the complete backlog of the trains that it currently does?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I still feel faintlyat the loss of the old 'windsor station' building that was demolished to make way for it...
That was at Waterloo where the old Eurostar gaff is now?
When did this go?
Really don't remember it at all, though I guess as well as Windsor trains the ones from Hounslow would end up there too?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
in theory, it should reduce it a bit, as there will be more platforms / lines that can be used. most of the london suburban railway system is currently running at absolute capacity, so the slightest balls-up can take a long time to work its way out of the system
although if the added capacity is used to increase services, then this may well still apply.
not sure of the exact plans. if the work is being done on bits that are currently not in use (i.e. the rest of the 'international' platforms and lines) presumably not so much.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes, shortly before the international station started to be built, and yes - the lines that go from clapham junction to richmond etc (rather than through wimbledon) are collectively known as 'the windsor lines'
this was a separate structure, albeit part of waterloo station and was (in the old platform numbering) platforms 16 to 21 - the six platforms nearest to york road on this (1922) plan.
More platforms were added in the old 'cab road' (in the middle), so what's now platform 19 used to be platform 15 in the main building (just below the - now demolished- 'station offices' building that's parallel with the platforms.)
there were sidings between the 'windsor station' and the office block on york road, which were not visible from inside the station. these also included the original hoist to get trains in and out of the waterloo & city line (video of it in use here) - a new hole in the ground had to be constructed off lower marsh when the eurostar station was built.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Wow, that would have been when I was around twenty. Walking round with my eyes shut, really can't remember it at all, although passed through at least once a month throughout out my whole childhood to go to Moorfields. Why we didn't take the tube all the way I don't know, will ask me mum at the weekend.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Was the "walking round with my eyes shut" why your mum had to take you to Moorfields once a month?
