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Someone Somewhere · April 30th 15, 08:35 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 30/04/2015 09:18, d wrote:
Apparently the ELL was closed all the way from Highbury down to clapham this
morning because of a fire at new cross. Did they not think to install
reversing crossovers at various points on the line or could they simply not
be bothered to run a service on the rather crucial Highbury - Canada Water
section? What a shambles they are.

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Spud

Hasn't this been discussed at length before? Namely it takes time to
implement a recovery service that would be time better spent
implementing a recovered service if the closure incident is going to be
transient. It also may be the case that a recovery service may have
less capacity than a full service and that TfL announce it's closed to
encourage people to take alternate routes when in fact there is a
modicum of a service running.

And if people see that length of line as crucial they clearly have very
short memories.