"D A Stocks" wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ...
In message , at 19:55:19
on Sat, 7 Feb 2015, remarked:
Aldwych is near enough to Covent Garden to be redundant.
The nearest station to Aldwych is Temple.
But Temple doesn't substitute for Aldwych as far as passengers using the
Piccadilly Line are concerned.
However, there will be a fair number of passengers for whom using Temple
and avoiding the central section of the Picadilly Line altogether is
definitely an option; e.g. Thameslink commuters can change at Blackfriars
rather than St Pancras and from 2018 their Great Northern brethren will
be able to join them. Similarly from West London it's an easy change onto
the District line and probably just as fast.
Yes, both Temple and Covent Garden have catchment areas that overlap
Aldwych, which makes the latter of limited benefit. When you also consider
the sparse rural-branch type shuttle service that it had, it would nearly
always be faster to use one of those very frequently served stations, even
if the walking time was marginally longer.