"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:10:21 on Fri, 27
May 2005, R.C. Payne remarked:
Like Clive, I've not heard of a recent plan; but there was a
scrap-the- circle plan a couple of years ago which seemed to entail
running Hammersmith and City services on a "loop the loop" basis:
running along the north of the Circle, round the bottom and round the
top again before exiting east.

Isn't this effectively what happens now, though? Only difference being
the number of loops before exiting stage left.

Not really. No. The H&C does about 45% of the loop, and the District
another 40%. The remaining 15% at the western end (Gloucester Rd to
Edgware Rd) isn't looped at all (the Circle is the only line that goes
from Gloucester Rd to High St Ken).

I think what was meant was not how the lines are printed on the map, but
what happens in practice, for instance a Hammersmith Edgware Road service,
then becomes a Circle for a few times, then becomes a Barking train (as it
were). I know most H&C run as that, but are there some that do the loop in
between?

Michael