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Old May 29th 05, 08:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Dave Arquati Dave Arquati is offline
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Default Circle Line "closing" from 2009?

Tom Anderson wrote:
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.


(snip)

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?


I don't have anything else on it, but I presume it's because if services
run Hammersmith - Edgware Road - Tower Hill - Gloucester Road - Edgware
Road, then *everyone* heading from Paddington towards Baker Street and
King's Cross (and vice versa) will be using the current H&C platforms,
whereas at the moment they divide between the H&C and Circle platforms.


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