On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:24:19 +0000, Basil Jet wrote:
wrote:
That won't be possible after 13 December. There will be no guaranteed
step-free route from Earl's Court to King's Cross.
Yes there will - the Circles will all terminate alongside the
Barkingbound platform, and the Wimblewares will all terminate alongside
the Hammersmithbound platform. (Or was it the other way around?)
Is that guaranteed? If trains arrive out of sequence (e.g., a Wimbleware
was running late at Earl's Court so a Circle snuck ahead of it into High
St Kensington), will the second Circle really wait for the first one to
depart (thereby holding up the trains behind it as well) rather than
simply taking the available track? And then the two back-to-back
Wimblewares would have a similar problem.
(It pretty much has to be guaranteed if people who can't climb stairs are
expected to rely on it.)
New York has two two-track terminals laid out like Edgware Rd: Brighton
Beach on the B and 57 St/7 Av on the Q. In both cases, cross-platform
transfers are available (guaranteed!) at the previous stop; regular
riders who need to transfer know not to wait until the terminal.
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David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA