A Tricky One
6Y08, the 11.25 Saturday empties from Tolworth to Cliffe Brett Marine must have been bit of a tricky one for timetable planners. At Raynes Park the train joins the busy South Western Main line and has to cross from the Up Slow to the Up Fast Line, prior to threading it's way across both the Down lines at Wimbledon West Junction in order to access the St Helier line that runs through platform 9 at Wimbledon station.
From Wimbledon 6Y08 runs through Haydons Road and Tooting, before reaching Streatham Junction. At Streatham North Junction the freight then has to be pathed on the busy Up Brighton Fast line for a short while through Balham, Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction, before heading off the main line at Pouparts Junction. A trip through south London is then made via Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye and Nunhead before it has to once again get a timetabled path through the very busy junction at Lewisham. Having negotiated all this it then runs via Hither Green and Sidcup to Dartford, Gravesend and it's destination in north Kent.
66 035 is seen at Wimbledon West Junction beginning it's weaving maneuver from the Up Fast line. The St Helier lines, to which 6Y08 is crossing to, can be seen on the extreme left curving in from Sutton via St Helier.
A Tricky One
6Y08, the 11.25 Saturday empties from Tolworth to Cliffe Brett Marine must have been bit of a tricky one for timetable planners. At Raynes Park the train joins the busy South Western Main line and has to cross from the Up Slow to the Up Fast Line, prior to threading it's way across both the Down lines at Wimbledon West Junction in order to access the St Helier line that runs through platform 9 at Wimbledon station.
From Wimbledon 6Y08 runs through Haydons Road and Tooting, before reaching Streatham Junction. At Streatham North Junction the freight then has to be pathed on the busy Up Brighton Fast line for a short while through Balham, Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction, before heading off the main line at Pouparts Junction. A trip through south London is then made via Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye and Nunhead before it has to once again get a timetabled path through the very busy junction at Lewisham. Having negotiated all this it then runs via Hither Green and Sidcup to Dartford, Gravesend and it's destination in north Kent.
66 035 is seen at Wimbledon West Junction beginning it's weaving maneuver from the Up Fast line. The St Helier lines, to which 6Y08 is crossing to, can be seen on the extreme left curving in from Sutton via St Helier.