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| Photographer / Copyright: Julian Bowden-Green Images should not be reused without permission. Date added to site:02/04/11 | ||
| Details: Ford Escort saloon cars were far rarer in the numbered fleet than the estate versions. Some were used by the Training School Manager for initial evaluation and training of bus driver recruits (before they were let loose on anything bigger). One of these was 2092F, new in June 1978 and photographed that month on Bollo Lane. The driver appears to be indicating to make the turn into the back entrance to Chiswick Works, while the greenhouses in the background are on the site now occupied by the Acton Works staff car park. | ||
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| 1260F | I too believe the original caption to be correct. The signal is definitely on the up Kew line from Kew East Jn to Bollo Lane Jn and protects Bollo Lane (Kew Line) CCTV level crossing. The waste land between the entrance to Chiswick Works and the Kew line was once an Express Dairy depot. I remember when there was a signal box and footbridge at each of the level crossings, which then had wheel operated gates. | Sun 03/04/11, 15:51 |
| Ray | You may be right and I initially thought likewise but due to the NLL running at an (obvious) angle (whereas the freight line is straighter) the reverse of the signal would only be seen from the road if on the curve from the NLL signal box and, as I assumed, facing south. Looking at this again it could be the signal is in fact facing the opposite direction and protecting the level crossing thus being on the freight line. In which case a trick of the light (which I must stop drinking) Note: Edited by Ray, 03/04/11, 13:55. | Sun 03/04/11, 13:50 |
| Thomas Young | The signal is actually on the South Acton to Kew East line (freight only) which runs beside the (now) staff car park. The entrance to Chiswick (and the buildings seen in the other pic) are just off frame to the left. | Sun 03/04/11, 13:24 |
| Ray | The rear of the railway signal would indicate the NLL so the car would have passed the rear of Chiswick by then. Also the shot of 2062F, taken the same month, show buildings where the staff car park is 'shown' in this shot. | Sat 02/04/11, 13:23 |