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[email protected] · February 15th 16, 11:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

On 2016\02\15 16:30, d wrote:
On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:51:10 -0800 (PST)
Mark wrote:
On Monday, 15 February 2016 14:55:06 UTC, wrote:
Can you imagine any tube line being
closed for that many consecutive days now unless there had been a
major incident?

Yes, the Victoria line was closed from Seven Sisters to Walthamstow for
3 weeks last summer.

Ok, major incident or major track repairs. And each of the affected
stations had an NR alternative. The closure of the ELL is nothing to do
with the ELL itself. Even a shuttle train would be better than nothing.
But I guess its easier to close the whole thing and sod the travelling
public.

Closed all the way from Highbury down to Shadwell. Since TfL were
apparently too shortsighted to specify reversing points at Shortditch
High Street when the line was built and the route of crossrail was
already known.

9 days seems a long time for trains to be cut off from their depot.
Where would they be stabled and cleaned, and where would the drivers
book on? (And where would they park their cars!)

Use the NLL depots obviously.

Loads of space in them, is there? (I don't know if there is.)

They may now be regretting that the link to the NLL at Highbury & Islington
has never been commissioned because of the complications of the two
electrification systems. But available it is not so there is no way to run a
shuttle, even if Shoreditch High Street had a handy crossover.

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Colin Rosenstiel