"Title Text Here" is a fantastic place. I can highly recommend it for your next vacation.

@ep5 Seriously, though. You gotta check out the "Title Text Here" while you're in the area.

There will be more to follow... Thanks....

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@Alberto Daniel instablaster =)

@Weston Wayne thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process now. Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.

It seemed a desolate place

Stratford is now a much busier place than when I was a kid (born 1969) and was just an interchange between local services to shenfield and southend and the central line with north London line coming later

Used to train spot there as a young boy. Awesome yard!

But at least it is still used as the continuous service of the railway industry by being the Eurostar depot and orient way carriage sidings and the railway retains a presence in Stratford and the surrounding areas

I was a drivers assistant, secondman at March Depot, 1974 to 1983...

Elite drivers I see that's amazing you guys were enjoying the trains before I even existed

Yes, though there is the more usual route via Hackney Central and Primrose Hill, or Hackney Central and Gospel Oak.

Assume there are other “less right” options.

Junction 4 would be to the track to the right, junction 5 to channelsea goods loop and then 6 for channelsea (down or up, not sure which is which)

I remember one weekend around 1989, when there were quite major engineering works at Liverpool Street....Enfield Town trains were starting at Stratford, and running via South Tottenham (non--stop, but even then electrified through the platforms), round another chord to Seven Sisters, then normal route. That was the only time I'd experienced electrified passenger services through there, of course now the entire "GOBLIN" Line is wired up.

@@ianmcclavin that chord between south Tottenham and seven sisters is a remnant of the old palace gates - north woolwich service and was used for passenger services (parliamentary) until quite recently (05:00 from Stratford or something like that Saturdays only) but hasn't run since goblin electrification

@@Keithbarber Keep kicking myself that I didn't "do" it when I had the chance.

This was partly because the MML’s freight is all diesel, so nowhere for an electric freight to go, and I believe, it’s not cleared for high cube containers so even if links to the WCML via Nuneaton were cleared it couldn’t be used by long distance container trains.

Completely agree. Japan seems to have replaced diesel locomotives for freight many decades ago now. Perhaps they still use them for shunting, I’m not sure. But that would be it. And even then you could use a battery locomotive for that now pretty easily if companies bothered to innovate.

They are catchpits, which are part of the drainage system. They ‘catch’ silt and other debris carried along the drainage pipe by water.

IT is

what train runs it

We do have paperwork with routes permitted/restricted, and container restrictions (W8/W10 etc)... all our paperwork has weight, height and loading gauge restrictions which we are very rarely deviated from due to the consist of the train... however, container trains are now able to travel on most lines, subject to container height.... The ECML is one example... From Canonbury / Finsbury Park to Peterborough, my go via Hertford North (Hertford Loop) unless the train is fully W8 gauge.

RT3973...👍

@@Freightdriver82 Bock in my day, Werrington Junction to Stoke Tinnel was slow lines only, the main line bridge holes were to small. Now it has been electrified it's no longer a problem. We also ran intermodal from Ipswich Griffin Wharf on a daily basis.

It’s huge.

You mean was...

19:25 signal here indicates a "Left". imagine the white lights, or Fingers, arranged in a circle, the one shown @ 2:13 would be bottom right, the one @ 19:25 would be top left.

West Anglia line is an extremely busy route - a F/L type train would mess up the normal timetable of the route 🙁

Yes, that is our main route to Wembley/WCML. I’ll see what I can do. 👍

@@Freightdriver82 That's fantastic, thanks very much 👍🏻

Uploaded just now! 👍🏻

We have one train that goes that way, mainly for route retention purposes... Always handy as a diversion. 👍

18 months or so.

@@filecore is the curve back in towards Chingford yet ?

@@articeddie5494 I don't know. I just know that I normally get the train from Tottenham Hale and now the extra line goes to Meridian Water which now allows 4tph to Stratford, over the previous 2, and as you saw, the 3rd line joins the double track just before lea bridge

@@articeddie5494 no plans to rebuild the Hall Farm curve.

@@robertbutlin3708 oh I thought they were going to reinstate it

God was around way long long time before you came on the scene.

@@earljohnson7102 I can see sarcasm and comedy are probably lost on you. Never mind it takes all sorts.

@@earljohnson7102 You don't say!

Didn't know the be Eurostar train depot had moved to Temple Mills in East London!.....thought it was still at North Pole depot in West London (nr.Old Oak Common sidings).

@@robtyman4281 Oh yes it moved way back in 2007 as part of a £402 million upgrade

It sounds like a class 66. So I think a freight train.

100% freight.

I don’t recall that (certainly hope not!), but I’ll have a look... 🤣

I put the same question in - three minutes in, the 'feathers' indicate left, but the track goes right!

They definitely don’t... I didn’t need to look to check, but had a glance anyway to see if I could see what your seeing... No idea where you get any indication of the route diverging left I’m afraid?

If it is the route indications which are causing confusion, off Stratford the indication given is of No6 route (bottom right), which gives the correct indication for the route I was taking. The route indications on a signal can come in up to 6 in that format. The routes are designated 1-6, or as in the rulebook, read as top to bottom, left to right. There may be some pictures or diagrams on Google which will show you the layout of a signal with multiple route indications to help clear up the confusion... But, I can assure you the signalling is correct! 🤣

@@Freightdriver82 - 2.19 in, partway along platform 10, just after the seated guy in dayglow yellow, is a gantry showing a single yellow, and above it a feather indicating left!

Freightliner I think

66

66

Thanks. That was my Go Pro Hero8 4K. Does the job nicely… Get out and about in Midlands/WCML soon with it.

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This is a goods train hence it takes a long and circuitous to avoid passenger trains, it’s not possible to travel this route on a passenger train. Secondly it was Filmed during the covid lockdown which is why all the stations are so quiet. And thirdly this is London, taking the car isn’t a option most of the time and even when it is it is the slower option