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Originally Posted by colchesterken
do you remember steam on what is now the Gospel Oak=Barking line
I used to live 2 houses from the viaduct near Wanstead Park station
used to watch the trains from my bedroom window instead of goint to sleep like a good little boy
ahhh the good old days
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That sounds nice! I can remember being woken up by diesel trains coming along very late at night (about 10 years ago) with extremely heavy loads which use to shake the foundations of my house which backed onto Queens Rd Station on the Gospel Oak / Barking Line. Does anybody know what those heavy loads might have been? I always thought it might be materials going to the Dagenham Ford Car Works. I only come to this conclusion because the Ford closure seemed to coincide with a reduction in the heavy trains going past.