Earls Court Triangle Sidings

Triangle sidings these are located in the area formed by the three stations of earls court gloucester road and high street kensington which forms a rough triangle hence the name.

Earls court triangle sidings. Triangle sidings is one of those strange places. Look closer and you ll see the complex points that give access to multiple tracks laid out in the darkness. Earls court by keith hazelton. The saxon thegn edwin held the lordship of the area prior to the norman conquest for over 500 years the land part of the ancient manor of kensington was under the lordship of the de vere family the earls of oxford descendants of aubrey de vere i who held the manor of geoffrey de montbray bishop of.

Earl s court was once a rural area covered in orchards green fields and market gardens. Jan 4 2011. This does happen quite frequently and happens when the trains are either out of turn or arrive late at earl s court and the signaller puts them back in turn to arrive at barking and upminster in the right order as this can cause issues when trains arrive one after the other going into sidings depot. A circle driver would expect a plain green aspect to indicate he was being routed to gloucester road.

However again in times of disruption circle line trains do occasionally stable in triangle sidings. There was no signal failure at earls court or around the surrounding area this morning. These days the land above triangle sidings is occupied by a sainsbury s supermarket. For those familiar with the line c stocks no longer routinely go to olympia these timetabled moves came to an end with the introduction of the timetable in september 2002.

These use this platform extensively as well as platform 3. As set the train is being routed to earls court this is what a district line driver would expect to see. They are easily viewable from a train as it travels between earls court and high street kensington. I m not sure waterloo city would really feel quite like earl s court but thanks all the same.

The complexity of this section is largely down to earls court being the chief hub of the district line. I have used the quail track diagrams map book but certain junctions have been simplified especially the triangle sidings and the throat of high street kensington station. C stock trains coming into service from triangle sidings also reverse here to go back via earls court to wimbledon. 11 057 earl s court signalling sim.

Triangle sidings these are located in the area formed by the three stations of earls court gloucester road and high street kensington which forms a rough triangle hence the name. They are easily viewable from a train as it travels between earls court and high street kensington.