On Sun, 29 May 2005, Dave Arquati wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

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.

Makes sense; i was wondering what changes might be made. I guess that
whole bridge/ticket barrier thing could be improved quite a bit.

I've just realised that this plan would have the side effect of making
catching a tube east at Paddington a lot less frustrating, since there
would be zero through trains from the circle platform, as opposed to
almost zero!

While we're on the H&C station at Paddington, i noticed the other day that
there are two mainline platforms on the fare-paid side of the barriers;
what are those all about? Are they used for suburban services?

tom

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