Some engineering trains can and do take the Lea Valley west line to Seven Sisters, use the chord onto the GOBLIN at a SoTo and reverse once, rather than twice.Pilot wrote:Last I checked Anglia was to the EastDave wrote:So the West to north connection avoiding Willesden on to the yard not good for you?Pilot wrote: Odd maybe, no doubt a useful one however, I don't know how much freight comes from Anglia to the MML, however, as I found out today, the alternative without Junction Road Jn (and the GOBLIN as a whole) is rather stupid!Was trying to get from Broxbourne onto the MML, so ended up going to London Fields, reverse, through Highbury + Islington, Gospel Oak and Willesden Jn to Acton Wells Jn, then reverse and straight away to the MML via Dudding Hill Jn (I imagine this is the connection you were meaning?). Could have gone via Stratford (Lea Valleys onto the NLL), but that was just adding time.
(Unless, I've completely missed another (more obvious) alternative)
Alternatively you can turn the train at Stratford - south through the station, west onto the NLL and then immediately turn north at Channelsea Jn to head back north to South Tottenham Jn without a reverse.
As busy as Stratford is, that side of the station is fairly quiet, so if you could slot it in amongst the NLL overground stoppers, you'd be grand.
This seems like a pointless endeavour, but London planners have been finding weird and wonderful ways of getting trains to places without reversing since forever.
