Trivia: lines that are never used by electric traction

[Elecman]

GWR mainline

Has seen locos an 87 has hauled a charter there

 

[bluegoblin7]

DLR network

The DLR has a Sentinel which has run over some (far from all, granted) of the network over the years.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

The DLR has a Sentinel which has run over some (far from all, granted) of the network over the years.

The Sentinel is diesel.

 

[Bovverboy]

P3 at Oxenholme?

I see that the OP has now amended the thread title.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Well, now that the title is about lines not used by (any form of) electric traction, who is going to list all the non-electrified bits, preserved lines, etc.?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Is the Brighton-Hastings a contender here? 3rd rail electrification, and I don't think anything like a 73 has gone down there?....

I'm fairly certain the Network Rail liveried ones have on a track recording train or similar?

 

[Peter C]

Well, now that the title is about lines not used by (any form of) electric traction, who is going to list all the non-electrified bits, preserved lines, etc.?

In this case, the Cotswold Line, Severn Valley Railway, Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, GWML (between Didcot and Cardiff), Great Central Railway, Isle of Wight Steam Railway, Chiltern Mainline, and many, many others qualify!

-Peter

 

[Peter C]

I'm fairly certain the Network Rail liveried ones have on a track recording train or similar?

Oh OK - thanks. I don't know the line that well and I'd never heard of a 73 going down there. It sounds like something which is in the realm of possibility, though.

-Peter

 

[Bovverboy]

Well, now that the title is about lines not used by (any form of) electric traction, who is going to list all the non-electrified bits, preserved lines, etc.?

Good question - we're going to be having the OP blowing a fuse at this rate!

 

[Jonathan1990]

Yes the thread has been put in the right context now. I'm always unsure about where and what to post but that's what I meant. Lines that have electric wires above them but have never seen any electric traction like platform 8 in York.

 

[Southsider]

Few of branches of the Glasgow network . Neilston , Cathcart Circle (Maxwell Park side ) , Glasgow Queen St low level /Central Low level , though was there a railtour to Dumbarton? Milngavie, Maybe line through to Bathgate . Gourock , Weymss Bay , ardrossan , largs .

The Gourock line was used for testing locos prior to the WCML being electrified to Glasgow.

 

[RichmondCommu]

The Matlock branch is never used by electric traction.

 

[randyrippley]

Until recently I would have said Carnforth station but now 88s sometimes work the flasks from Sellafield I’m unsure where they switch over to electric. 331 test runs supposedly run to Carnforth but I don’t know whether any run as far as the station. They mostly seem to terminate in the D&UGL to the south. There definitely was a 331 at Carnforth this week but it was being hauled by a 37 en-route to Skipton.

Platforms 3c and 4c at Preston used to see a lot of electric loco’s when there were loco hauled services that required a loco change. Since they finished they do see the very occasional EMU but I don’t think any EMU passenger service has been booked to depart from them for decades.

Lancaster terminators in the class 87/90 days used to run into Carnforth platform 1 to reverse. More recently I've seen Pendolinos doing the same when there's been a line blockage north of Lancaster. Never seen one on platform 2
What never see electric trains are Lancaster platforms 1&2

 

[Springs Branch]

Runcorn Folly Lane branch?

De-electrified now, but OHLE was in place since the Crewe - Liverpool electrification. Maybe back in the 1960s there were electrically-hauled freights on there, but trains were diesel-hauled to the ICI works for as far as I can remember.

 

[Craig2601]

I saw a small part of a driver's eye view of the Edinburgh - Glasgow lines from Video125 and apparently they are all electrified - if so, has an electric loco ever run down them? I assume that may have happened, but probably in the days of BR?....

-Peter

Loco hauled specials have ran through Glasgow central LL in recent times.

 

[Peter C]

Loco hauled specials have ran through Glasgow central LL in recent times.

OK - thanks!

-Peter

 

[route101]

Loco hauled specials have ran through Glasgow central LL in recent times.

What classes ?

 

[Llama]

Not sure Manchester Victoria platforms 1 & 2 have seen any electric traction yet, the energisation notice was posted months ago and the restriction for electric traction proceeding east from Victoria towards Bromley Street Jn was restricted a few weeks ago.

 

[noddingdonkey]

I can't imagine the two East facing bays at Leeds being used for any electric traction.

 

[greyman42]

Does the York avoider ever see electric traction?

 

[lewisf]

The electrified run off where the Selby diversion section of the ECML leaves the 4 tracked York to Leeds line. Or the MML fast lines just south of Bedford before the wires currently run out.

 

[Surreytraveller]

Is the Brighton-Hastings a contender here? 3rd rail electrification, and I don't think anything like a 73 has gone down there?....

-Peter

73 202 paid a visit to St Leonards Depot recently (might even be there now)

 

[skh93]

Platforms 1 and 2 at Bolton?
Don't think any testing was even done on that side of the station, happy to be corrected though

 

[Peter C]

73 202 paid a visit to St Leonards Depot recently (might even be there now)

Oh OK - thanks. I didn't know Southern still had 202!

-Peter

 

[Bovverboy]

Platforms 1 and 2 at Bolton?
Don't think any testing was even done on that side of the station, happy to be corrected though

The following 319 runs into P2 at Bolton every Saturday night (well, very early Sunday morning) - if it isn't cancelled, that is, as it was last night.
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y63526/2019/09/14/advanced
The following evening it runs ECS to Stockport CMD.
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y65091/2019/09/15/advanced

 

[Llama]

Yes, platform 2 at Bolton has seen 319s regularly.

 

[Bovverboy]

Lancaster terminators in the class 87/90 days used to run into Carnforth platform 1 to reverse.

How did the loco run round?

 

[K.o.R]

The MML platforms at St Pancras?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I can't imagine the two East facing bays at Leeds being used for any electric traction.

Though both have been used to stable EMUs between the peaks in the past.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The MML platforms at St Pancras?

Think they've seen EMUs when the Thameslink core has been blocked for engineering works.