• London Victoria Carriage Holding Sidings, also known as Grosvenor Road Carriage Sidings, is a stabling point located in Westminster, London, England....
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    Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City...
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    railway hotels in London were built at Euston. Two hotels designed by Hardwick opened in 1839 on either side of the Arch; the Victoria on the west had basic...
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    stock included Pullman carriages or wagons for the carriage of parcels and newspapers, allowing flexibility of use on the London suburban lines and the...
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    Herne Hill railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 2)
    been added to the east of the station and two sidings had been added to the west; one of the western sidings was a bay platform for passenger trains, which...
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    Satellite locations for stabling trains include Stratford, London Euston and sidings (mainly used by London Northwestern Railway), and c2c's East Ham Depot. Train...
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    Effingham Junction railway station (category Former London and South Western Railway stations)
    Effingham Junction Carriage Holding Sidings Mallinson, Howard (2006). Guildford via Cobham. p. 152. Body, p.88 A view of the carriage shed at Effingham...
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    Clapham Junction railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 2)
    London Borough of Wandsworth, England, 2 miles 57 chains (2.71 mi; 4.37 km) from London Victoria and 3 miles 74 chains (3.93 mi; 6.32 km) from London...
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    Streatham Hill railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    maintenance of the passenger carriages at the London end of the station. Some of the lighting gantries above the sidings are remains of the pioneering...
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    Crystal Palace railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    By the 1890s the central island had been removed and replaced by carriage sidings. The frontage of the station was rebuilt in 1875, and was described:...
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    Orpington railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 6)
    Cross, London Victoria, Cannon Street and Luton/Bedford. At the country end, the four tracks become two. At the London end there is a four-road sidings, where...
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    Selhurst railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 4)
    provide access for the carriage sheds and repair depot for the LB&SCR railway electrification scheme. In 1925, the lines from Victoria via Norbury were electrified...
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    Cricklewood railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    directly north of the sidings and above the northern junction with the Dudding Hill Line. Today, the depot serves as the London base for East Midlands...
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    concourse is called the Lawn. It was originally unroofed and occupied by sidings, but was later built up to form part of the station's first concourse....
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    Gidea Park railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 6)
    to nine carriages. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV were installed and the footbridge and carriage-sidings refurbished...
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    COVID-19 Pandemic, the units were temporarily stored at Shoeburyness Carriage Sidings in March 2020. Later in 2020, they were reinstated for use on services...
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    hauled carriages with small opaque windows, nicknamed padded cells. The Waterloo and City Railway opened in 1898, followed by the Central London Railway...
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    third-busiest railway station in the United Kingdom, after London Waterloo and London Victoria, with an estimated 66 million passenger entries and exits...
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    railway station is in the London Borough of Lewisham. It lies 5 miles 47 chains (9.0 km) down the South Eastern Main Line from London Charing Cross, and is...
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    Mottingham railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 4)
    the sidings. The driver of the passenger train was killed and 13 passengers injured. In 1955 the platforms were lengthened to take ten carriage trains...
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    Crayford railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 6)
    the station. The two sidings on the down side remained for many years and were still in use until the mid-1990s. By 2000 the sidings had fallen out of use...
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    Lee railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3)
    1870s a second siding was installed dedicated to coal, and a coal shed was erected across the track. Later a further pair of sidings was inserted alongside...
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    Surbiton railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 6)
    can be accessed by 12 carriage trains. Platform 1: for most services to London Waterloo. Platform 2: for some services to London Waterloo, mostly in the...
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    Seven Kings railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 4)
    the station. The southern part of the triangle diverged at Ilford Carriage Sidings Junction and was used by regular passenger services. The northern leg...
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  • 1965 and private sidings were closed by October 1967. The only coal traffic using the line in the 1960s was from Jackson's sidings in Tyldesley. Passenger...
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    City Thameslink railway station (category Rail transport stations in London fare zone 1)
    lead to increased footfall. The platforms were made ready for future 12-carriage trains, and the passenger information system improved. New lighting, ticket...
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    Chiltern Railways (category Railway operators in London)
    Aylesbury, two new platforms were constructed at London Marylebone on land formerly occupied by the carriage sidings, while a new depot was constructed at Wembley...
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    There may be other sidings at the station which are lower speed tracks for other purposes. A maintenance track or a maintenance siding, usually connected...
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    private sidings belonging to Young & Martens were located on the up side. During the 1960s part of the Stratford Works site was converted to the London International...
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    into the former carriage road in the 1980s and two added in September 2006. It is the only non-electrified railway terminus in London. Marylebone is operated...
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