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Old January 14th 05, 01:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Brimstone Brimstone is offline
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Default Slow northbound picc into Kings X

Richard J. wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
Boltar wrote:
The piccadilly trains seem to run very slowly into the northbound
platform at Kings X and its been like that for years. Anyone know
the reason?


There's a twenty mile an hour speed restriction over two set of
pointwork on the approach. The first set is the crossover to the
west/south bound and the second is a connection to the Northern
Line. The latter comes out on the City branch just south of Euston.


Has the speed limit been increased? It used to be 10 mph there.


It may be that my reference is out of date and it has been further reduced.

Perhaps a current T/Op will be along soon to confirm the exact figure.
However, we are in agreement that the reason for the slow entry is a severe
speed restriction on the approach.