Mikey C
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Yes. From the platforms at Golders Green you can also see the occasional train going straight from the depot into the middle tunnel, which is the southbound running track to Hampstead.
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Weird Places for Services to Terminate
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All of the stations from Fitzwilliam northwards get at least 2tph, and South Elmsall effectively does too considering Moorthorpe is so close. Terminating at Adwick gives Adwick and Bentley 2tph as well - and as they're in South Yorkshire, it supports commuter flows towards Sheffield and Doncaster.
leytongabriel
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Fenchurch St to Grays (via Dagenham Dock) seems odd rather than continue to Tilbury.
Grays has a bay platform?
Bishopstone
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Grays terminators on the LT&S are long-standing, but until relatively recent times the services starting and finishing there came from Upminster, via Ockendon. (Or Romford, if we go back to the 50s).
If I have my timeline right, it was the opening of Lakeside shopping centre and nearby housing development at Chafford Hundred that saw ‘via Ockendon’ services extended through to Southend Central, and in parallel the ‘via Rainham’ service was cut back to Grays, though there is timetable variety in the peak hours.
Also in the mix was the closure of the spur to Tilbury Riverside in the early 90s. In its later years, Riverside took some ‘branch’ services from Upminster, along with some trains from London via Rainham which reversed there before continuing to Pitsea and beyond.
Believe the Fratton guard takes it ECS to Southampton.
The train in question is the only booked LTP service to terminate at Fareham.
I believe the ‘Mexican Bean’ class 104 was used on Oban - Crianlarich tourist shuttles (connecting with Fort William services) rather than school runs - from recollection the dedicated Oban High School service didn’t start until around a decade ago and was planned around the increase in daily services from three to six.
norbitonflyer
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Not seen it before, but because of maintenence work at Teddington area, Kingston Loop services are terminating at Hampton Wick this weekend
Avenger20
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There used to be a 1633 Glasgow Queen Street to Lenzie up until 2019. The 156 then ran empty to Edinburgh to form an additional to Glasgow Central.
We of course used to have the evening Cardenden terminator which was loco hauled/HST operated in its latter years. There were also a handful of services that terminated at Kirkcaldy rather than continuing to Glenrothes with Thornton.
We of course used to have the evening Cardenden terminator which was loco hauled/HST operated in its latter years. There were also a handful of services that terminated at Kirkcaldy rather than continuing to Glenrothes with Thornton.
The LTS had loads of odd destinations in the past with the weirdest being an Ealing Broadway to Pitsea (pre WW2).
In steam days there was a morning Tilbury Riverside to Dagenham Dock once worked by an Immingham Britannia and possibly the only pacific on an LTS service train?
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Used to be an Upminster to Tilbury Riverside service. With Lakeside it makes sense it was swapped as Tilbury Riverside was closed to passenger traffic.