Piccadilly_Line
04-16-2003, 01:12 PM
Do I ever stop ;) ?!
V2 of NETram will cover route 73. This starts at Railway Station terminus : this is on the right as you're about to pass under the railway line (but not seen in v1). Route 89 will be updated to go with Alex Farlie's updated history of the system. Meanwhile, 73 leaves the station on high level and then down a slight gradient, 90 degree to the left to pass over the railway lines (tying in with 60s Branchline route which passes below!), after the lines it takes a sharp left hand turn again so it's doubling back on itself and then a very long gradient down firstly to a small stop at Railway Station North, then carrying on down to street level and below to call at Town Hall Square, but different platforms from route 89. The line climbs out of THS stop to street level, running streight along. We join 89 at the junction after West St stop, then follow 89 as far as Hull St. We carry streight on to the main City Interchange : a massive interchange with facilities for cars, buses, trams and trains. We exit the tram stops at CI into the bus and taxi stops, and then up a ramp onto the platforms at Northernville City Interchange BR station. After a pause here we slope down under the tracks and out back onto the streets. After a mile or so negotiating one way systems, we end up on the central reservation of the main dual carridgeway to the docks. Through the docks, we stop to allow dockers for the suburbs to join. Our trip then takes us through the suburbs dropping off occasionally. There's then a run through new development, occaisionally dropping off passengers. Around here the houses become more under construction, and then we arrive at Northernville Borders stop. This has two centre terminating roads but the outer lines continue further. We pick up a few passengers who were on terminators, and then with two dings from the conductor we roll out into open countryside. A longish journey through fiends ends on the outskirts of Stamford, where a layout similar to Northernville Borders is negotiated. After a short journey through new housing estates we stop at South Fleet, before diving underground. These sections were constructed for trials for the Stamford City Underground, this section being completed in the 1950's but progress halted until the 1970s due to lack of funding. The tunnels found use for the trams. We stop at North Fleet and Elvaston and Stamford Victoria before bursting out into the open again, and thence onto a viaduct to stop at Central. Since Stamford Borders trams of the Stamford Transport Corperation will have been seen. Route 73, the link between Northernville and Stamford is a joint venture between the two companies and thus operated accordingly. Due to bad weather which occurs on top of the viaduct, here our tram takes power from a 3rd rail system, the design of which was reused by DLR engineers in the 1980's (nice excuse for using Richard Gellman's rail objects pack ;) ). The manager of the company used poor specification OHLE and it frequently succumbed to poor weather. Despite engineers quoting for weatherproof OHLE, it was dismissed as too expensive, and therefore all trams working over this section must either have a 3rd rail shoe fitted. To overcome the problem of non - fitted cars working over the route, sidings at either end of the viaduct contain small 4 - wheeled flat trucks with 3rd rail apparatus and wires which clip onto contacts on top of the pantograph. This operation is done by the conductor using a long *wooden* pole for obvious reasons! The trucks are coupled and uncoupled, wired and unwired here accordingly. We continue on viaduct over the city for a while before returning to street level. A short section of reserved track brings us into the embryonic Stamford Airport, only recently opened. It would later become a huge international facility.
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Tom Beevers
http://brj.rr.nu
V2 of NETram will cover route 73. This starts at Railway Station terminus : this is on the right as you're about to pass under the railway line (but not seen in v1). Route 89 will be updated to go with Alex Farlie's updated history of the system. Meanwhile, 73 leaves the station on high level and then down a slight gradient, 90 degree to the left to pass over the railway lines (tying in with 60s Branchline route which passes below!), after the lines it takes a sharp left hand turn again so it's doubling back on itself and then a very long gradient down firstly to a small stop at Railway Station North, then carrying on down to street level and below to call at Town Hall Square, but different platforms from route 89. The line climbs out of THS stop to street level, running streight along. We join 89 at the junction after West St stop, then follow 89 as far as Hull St. We carry streight on to the main City Interchange : a massive interchange with facilities for cars, buses, trams and trains. We exit the tram stops at CI into the bus and taxi stops, and then up a ramp onto the platforms at Northernville City Interchange BR station. After a pause here we slope down under the tracks and out back onto the streets. After a mile or so negotiating one way systems, we end up on the central reservation of the main dual carridgeway to the docks. Through the docks, we stop to allow dockers for the suburbs to join. Our trip then takes us through the suburbs dropping off occasionally. There's then a run through new development, occaisionally dropping off passengers. Around here the houses become more under construction, and then we arrive at Northernville Borders stop. This has two centre terminating roads but the outer lines continue further. We pick up a few passengers who were on terminators, and then with two dings from the conductor we roll out into open countryside. A longish journey through fiends ends on the outskirts of Stamford, where a layout similar to Northernville Borders is negotiated. After a short journey through new housing estates we stop at South Fleet, before diving underground. These sections were constructed for trials for the Stamford City Underground, this section being completed in the 1950's but progress halted until the 1970s due to lack of funding. The tunnels found use for the trams. We stop at North Fleet and Elvaston and Stamford Victoria before bursting out into the open again, and thence onto a viaduct to stop at Central. Since Stamford Borders trams of the Stamford Transport Corperation will have been seen. Route 73, the link between Northernville and Stamford is a joint venture between the two companies and thus operated accordingly. Due to bad weather which occurs on top of the viaduct, here our tram takes power from a 3rd rail system, the design of which was reused by DLR engineers in the 1980's (nice excuse for using Richard Gellman's rail objects pack ;) ). The manager of the company used poor specification OHLE and it frequently succumbed to poor weather. Despite engineers quoting for weatherproof OHLE, it was dismissed as too expensive, and therefore all trams working over this section must either have a 3rd rail shoe fitted. To overcome the problem of non - fitted cars working over the route, sidings at either end of the viaduct contain small 4 - wheeled flat trucks with 3rd rail apparatus and wires which clip onto contacts on top of the pantograph. This operation is done by the conductor using a long *wooden* pole for obvious reasons! The trucks are coupled and uncoupled, wired and unwired here accordingly. We continue on viaduct over the city for a while before returning to street level. A short section of reserved track brings us into the embryonic Stamford Airport, only recently opened. It would later become a huge international facility.
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Tom Beevers
http://brj.rr.nu