{"id":2812,"date":"2023-06-04T01:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-6\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T01:29:21","slug":"sunday-variety-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/sunday-variety-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"
L1 To LBR<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Nothing significant remains of this Interchange but the new terminus building is the white rectangle top right …<\/p>\n … and the former BR branch runs diagonally across the lower left of the Google Earth view above.<\/p><\/div>\n … but, away fom the quarries, the route was through open country. Leighton Buzzard simply expanded around it!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n We are all familiar with Poirot (in various shapes and sizes with various shapes and sizes of moustache) as he toured Europe c\/o Wagons Lits. But over the past few years Sleeping Car trains have almost disappeared from lands across the Channel.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … and European Sleepers (dig the squiggly logo) has just made a start by running three nights a week from Berlin to Bruxelles.<\/p>\n Timings are as below …<\/p>\n … with returns on alternate days.<\/p>\n In fact the train is currently using a different terminus in Berlin …<\/p>\n Nobody seems to want to tell you why. Whilst Germany was divided, Lichtenberg was the main station for East Berlin.<\/p>\n ES operates a motley collection of old hired-in stock …<\/p>\n … hauled by a hired-in freight loco!<\/p>\n Already some trips have been running full. Accomodation is offered in normal seated coaches …<\/p>\n … in three tier couchettes …<\/p>\n … and traditional two berth cabins.<\/p>\n Although the pictures above appear on their web site, the company’s blurb warns that the facilities may not be exactly as shown.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n It was working an Axe Valley route but in a very different red livery – London Buses red. Axe Valley’s red is deeper, more maroon.<\/p><\/div>\n And here is the same vehicle with Metroline in London!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Although not yet quite up to the skills of Montgomery Scott, fbb could now identify a Jeffries Tube and recognise the consequences of a failure of the dilithium crystals!<\/p><\/div>\n What a disappointment! It was a very simplified history of London’s Underground with no technical stuff whatsoever.<\/p><\/div>\n … but there was no “naming of parts”. **<\/p><\/div>\n
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