"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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In article , Clive Coleman
writes

Given the existence of Highgate Depot,
I really can't see them trying to keep
separate fleets for the various routes. Just like we don't
keep the Bank and CX branch fleets separate now.

But could this just be because both CX and
Bank trains go to both destinations?

No, it's because it's a damn site easier
to keep one fleet of trains than split it.

They could easily have marketed the service as three different lines (via
Finsbury Pk, via Kings Cross and via Charing Cross), but use a single fleet
with a single map showing all three, as currently happens on the Circle /
H&C / Wimbleware fleet.

The fact that the lines would serve the same northern termini is not a
reason to portray them as the same line, in fact it's a reason to portay
them as different lines. I'm sure the residents and visitors in Uxbridge
would find life more confusing if LT decided that trains from Cockfosters to
Uxbridge and trains from Aldgate to Uxbridge should be portrayed as the same
line, as would anyone using Kings Cross, or trying to get from Finchley Rd
to Hyde Pk Corner (just as groups of people can be found every ten minutes
or so on the Northern Line platforms at Leicester Square staring at the line
map verbally arguing over where Kings Cross has gone.)

(BTW, why am I the only one here who ever changes subject lines?)

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