In article , Tim Roll-Pickering
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Maybe, but the service on the H&C is frankly poor. Many times when I've had
to travel Euston Square to Stepney Green I've found it impossible to catch a
through service and instead wind up having to change two or three times
using the Circle/Met (sometimes both if one stops at Moorgate), H&C and
District. An integrated Aldgate station would usually allow me a single
interchange rather than perpetually catching trains for two stops at a time
on a through route.

Absent the *extremely* rare reversal at King's Cross or Farringdon,
*ALL* eastbound H&C trains call at both Euston Square and Aldgate East
and are not overtaken by Circle or Met. trains en route. So you can
*never* save time by doing what you say you do; you simply wait at a
different place.

Yes, an Aldgate interchange would allow you to take a Circle/Met. to
Aldgate and then walk through long enough passages to miss the following
H&C train, but I'm not sure that there's a great public benefit there.

Are the through platforms at Aldgate long enough to support Met trains?

No.

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