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[email protected] · January 31st 04, 08:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(TheOneKEA) wrote:

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In article ,
(Alan Ingham) wrote:

Has anyone heard any updates as to what is happening on the
Northern Line?
I've been trawling through search engines to find some info, but it
all
seems a bit vague.

Some sources say the old arrangement is coming back because of
crowding at
Euston and Camden Town. Others say it's not because the present
arrangement
works quite well and there are safety concerns after running the old
arrangement for decades without a hitch.

It seems a bit fatalist to write off the flexibility of the
Northern Line on
the basis of one incident. At the moment a twice-daily change at
Camden Town
or Euston is a sodding nightmare. As usual their website doesn't
have much
useful info on it. It's like the whole thing has been swept under
the
carpet.

Alan

The original arrangements are still expected to come back. Timetable
48 was planned to return on 1st Feb, but was cancelled at the last
minute. Timetable 49 (an improved service which still has all the
moves at Camden Town) is due to come in later this year.

Have there been any further rumours with regards to improving the
flexibility of the line, to allow trains to be more easily diverted
during peak times? (This is in reference to earlier moaning about the
track layout at Kennington and how it prevents changes in timetables
during peak periods).

Roger

Brad

I don't have that post, but I assume that it was referring to the first
emergency timetable (89/03) that came out that had strict Edgware - Morden
via Bank/Barnet-Kennington via CX paths. The current temporary timetable
(TT20/04) has gone back to the 91 train timetable very similar to the
original timetable 48 with stepping-back at Morden and through trains from
the CX branch to Morden.

As a consequence, there shouldn't be any problems now at Kennington. The
main difference between TT20/04 and timetable 48 is that there is still no
service between the Bank/Barnet branch and CX/Edgware branch. However, if
required, SB Barnet trains can run via Bank and SB Edgware trains can run
via CX, although no trains are timetabled to do so.

Roger