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[email protected] · June 18th 10, 11:26 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Peter Masson) wrote:

I can just about remember South Ken with 4 District/Circle
platforms. What would be possible, and probably not too difficult,
would be to put in an additional westbound (clockwise)track and
platform at South Kensington, so that District trains have their
own track, separate from the Circle, from here through Gloucester
Road. Useful when Earls Court is blocked, perhaps with trains
waiting for a change of driver, as Circle trains could overtake the
queue. Exceptionally a District train could use the Circle track to
overtake a queue if this helped regulating the service.

I remember the East-facing bay at South Ken. I never saw a train in it
other than on Sundays.

I think the problem there is that the escalator to the Piccadilly
platforms has blocked part of the old District formation. The old
Eastbound District platform is still available, though. That would allow
separation of District and Circle again.

If the westbound (anticlockwise} track through Barbican was
diverted to the former Up Moorgate Widened line trains would simply
call at the other side of the island platform. The existing
westbound line could then be used as a recess line, or as a
turnback line in either direction. At worst passengers on an
eastbound train which was being turned back would be advised to
change at Farringdon if they were travelling beyond Barbican, or
have to cross the bridge at Barbican if they weren't given or
didn't heed this advice. No worse than trains turning back at
Mansion House or Tower Hill.

Given the track layouts at Farringdon and Moorgate, how easy would it be
to use to old Widened Lines Barbican up platform as a loop?

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Colin Rosenstiel