On Fri, 27 May 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:

ONscotland wrote:

I read that LUL are withdrawing the "Circle" line service, as it causes
far too many delays at the various bottlenecks on the route.

It's an old plan which gets revived every few years; Metronet have it in
their sights now.

Three questions:

Firstly, am i right in thinking that it will no longer be possible to
catch a train from anywhere anticlockwise of Edgware Road to anywhere
clockwise of it (or vice versa)? High Street Kensington to Baker Street,
say, or Bayswater to King's Cross. That would seem like a very, very
serious degradation in service.

Secondly, what happened to the panhandle plan? That had H&C trains doing
Hammersmith - Edgware Road - Liverpool Street - Tower Hill - Gloucester
Road - Edgware Road - Liverpool Street - Aldgate East - Whitechapel or
Barking; in other words, coming in like a current H&C, doing one turn
round the circle, then going out like an H&C. That turned the circle into
a line, allowing recovery time to be inserted, but maintained a mostly
circular service (you couldn't go from south of Edgware Road to south of
Liverpool Street in a clockwise direction, but other than that, you have
direct trains between any two points).

Lastly, Dave, you say "Works will be undertaken on the Hammersmith &
City line station at Paddington to relieve overcrowding.". Can you expand
on that at all?

tom

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