Boltar wrote:
LUL do whatevers less hassle for LUL, not whats more convenient for
passengers.
Haven't you noticed that whenever theres some show stopper on any
line
they
shut wholes swathes of the line , not just the bit between the
nearest
crossovers.
No doubt LUL or one of the PPP vultures would come up with some
fatuous
safety case
to explain it.

All right - let's take the Victoria Line as an example.

Say there's a bomb alert at Oxford Circus Victoria and the station has
to be closed completely with all Victoria Line services suspended.
Who's to say that use of the trailing crossover at Warren Street could
be a risk to the safety of the drivers?

Take the Piccadilly for example. Disaster at KxStP results in Hyde Park
Corner to Arnos Grove being suspended because the crossover is missing
at Covent Garden. If things get really bad services might cut back to
Hammersmith!

Admittedly the age of the infrastructure and the lack of maintenance
during the previous regime is partially responsible for many of the
SNAFUs seen on LU, but keep in mind that in some cases it's missing
infrastructure, not knackered infrastructure.