A friend of mine used to tell me about working these freight lines out of Nine Elms when it was still steam powered. Just shows how old we are getting as we are talking sixty years ago. Nine Elms is where the New Covent Garden market is.
Where are all the sidings gone!!! The sidings that are still there are overgrown and decrepit. How sad that things have continued to decay since the EWS days when I used to work for them. On another note, I have always found it vexing how there can be such lovely track with limits up to 125 mph and yet so many branch / local lines are still restricted to puny 15 and 25 mph limits. Thanks for the video. It was great to recall some of my old stomping grounds and see how things have changed.
Thanks for this video - fascinating to see this this section of line in full - as a WCML commuter I'd speed past the Wembley Yards without seeing where this route would go - your perspective is much appreciated. Cheers.
I wondered where I recognised the start from, it appeared on one of the Paddington 24/7 episodes! The crossings just outside of the yard had a crack in them.