"Edward Cowling London UK" wrote in message
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On a different subject; it seems unlikely the Piccadilly line is going to
be operational for many weeks, if not months. Are there plans to make
alternative arrangements to service the stations North of Kings Cross ?

Don't know what alternative arrangements might be made, but there's little
or no chance that the area of suspension will get any smaller. The only
other available reversing facility on the route is at Wood Green, and this
can only be used to reverse from east to west.

Note that the current shuttle from Hammersmith to Paddington uses a
hand-worked crossover at Royal Oak. To my knowledge this has only been used
by passenger trains on one other occasion during engineering works at
Edgware Road in the 1990s. This shows that LU is really trying hard to offer
the best service in the difficult circumstances.