On Dec 18, 10:17*am, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:31:58 -0000

"Jack Taylor" wrote:
Following the timetable change, FCC have ceased running empties from
Farringdon into Moorgate and the branch has been fully decommissioned. As at
today, Thursday, the branch has been completely dewired, final removals
occurring adjacent to the LUL sidings at Farringdon today. The signalling
has also been switched out.

Given the speed at which this work is taking place, I guess that track
recovery will not be long commencing.

What a ****ing idiotic decision this is. That branch was used by a LOT of
people who are now going to have to crowd onto a packed tube train to do
the last mile of their journey. All so they can lengthen Farringdons platform.
What the hell for? Why couldn't they just do the same as the do in dozens of
other places around the country and just say that to get out at farringdon you
have to be in the first 8 cars of the new 12 car trains?

This is nothing but cost cutting dressed up as some fatuous service
improvement.

B2003

Nonsense, you can't build what's meant to be a shiney new system with
very tight dwell times and then announce 'sorry, the doors won't open
on these four carriages'. If it's being touted as a twelve-car system
that's what it has to be.
Tim