do Ilford car sheds (1960) mean anything to anyone?

Answer 1

not a blind notion chief but thanks for the points

Answer 2

All things being equal, mileage equals wear & tear. However, a car's far more likely to be a good or bad buy depending on how it's done the miles and how well it's been looked after. If someone lives a 75 mile motorway drive from work and does 150 miles a day at 70mph, gets the car serviced properly and doesn't thrash it, then even though it's done 40-odd thousand miles a year, it's going to be in far better condition than a car used as a taxi in city driving with the same mileage.

Answer 3

Ilford in East London, Now an Electric unit depot and Bombardier maintainace works

Answer 4

They are on the line East from Liverpol St toward Shenfield, and were the main works for the EMU's used on that line, now apparently owneed by Bombardier: I believe "One" rolling stock is still stabled in the adjoining sidings. 1960 was IIRR the date of electrification as far as Shenfield, later exteneded by stages as far as Norwich.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Not being in the UK, and taking in to account slight differences in terminology, I'll venture a guess the at a place known as Ilford there were what we in the US rail vernacular would call "car barns", which are either repair shops for for freight and passenger cars or storage places for the cable cars of San Francisco, Ca., which is also referred to as a car barn.

I'm not sure, but it would seem logical that this term is applied to street and trolley cars as well. There was a time when street cars in the larger cities of the US employed horse teams for power, and would head to the barn, literally.

When the word "barn" stands alone in US rail terminology, it means a building or place where locomotives are serviced or "tied up" (aka stabled), as in being "headed for the barn."

Much US railroad terminology comes from terms of the western stage coach lines of the old west. This is where the terms used above stem from; "Tie-ing up" the horses or taking them to "the barn."

Lesser known, the term "hot box," meaning an overheated journal, also comes from the stage coaches of the old western US.

1960 is obviously a significant date, that could be closure, demolition, construction, etc.

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