August 10th 17, 02:15 PM
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London Waterloo international
In message , at 14:54:30 on Thu, 10 Aug
2017, Graeme Wall remarked:
On 10/08/2017 13:05, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\08\10 12:53, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 10/08/2017 12:27, d wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:12:53 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
There was for a while an idea that E* could use both terminals. Not
sure who dreamt that one up, possibly a southern edition of M Bell
(Tyneside) Ltd.
There was probably a reasonable argument to keep Waterloo in
service for a
while after St P opened in case of teething problems either at the
station
or on HS1 but I suppose the cost would have been prohibitive.o
It effectively was while HS1 was still in its testing phase but
there were proposals that it would be a good idea to continue a
passenger service into Waterloo for those who found the UndergrounD
too exotic.
I think it was only ever a sop to stop South Londoners complaining
about ending up on the wrong side of the river again, even for Europe.
Anybody coming in from SWT territory got no advantage from the switch
as the saving in international journey time was neatly cancelled out by
the journey from Waterloo to SPI, which also involved an extra two
changes.
Cross platform at Oxford Circus is pretty trivial.
Probably quicker to switch to the Victoria Line at Vauxhall, in
practice.
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Roland Perry
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