In article , Nestor Badudoy
writes
I was just wondering what was the layout of South Kensington and Gloucester
Road stations before track reorganisation?

Any diagrams available on the web anywhere?

Google Groups should have some ASCII diagrams I did a few years ago.

Basically the section was run as two separate lines, Circle on the
northern side and District on the southern, converging east of South
Ken. However, a cluster of eastbound Districts (including non-stops)
over the junction would prevent a westbound Circle getting through and
foul up the entire service.

The first change (27-28 July 1957) was to swap the central pair of
tracks. Stopping eastbound Districts used the eastbound Circle through
the two stations; non-stops used the track that had been the westbound
Circle. Now the point of conflict was where it is now, and westbound
Circles could sit at either station and let Districts past them.

The eastbound fast was taken out of use in October 1964 and disconnected
on 8th Jan 1967; the slow was slewed into its place at South Ken on the
same day. The westbound split was moved to the west end of South Ken on
30th March 1969.

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