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Old July 15th 05, 06:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Richard J. Richard J. is offline
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Default Why can't the Picc terminate southbound at Wood Green?

Brimstone wrote:
"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:09:03 GMT, Stuart
wrote:

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:

Nothing has run through since Thursday. Hence we have 73 stock
parked up all over the place, South Harrow & Ealing Common for
two and I suspect Uxbridge, although I've not been there since I
left my train there on the day.

Oops, pressed send too early

So there's too many trains in the wrong places. Are there any
other routes to transfer them from the Arnos Grove end to the
section west of Hyde Park corner?


No - regrettably the Picc Line is a "trunk route" between key depot
locations like Ruislip, Acton and Lillie Bridge and other tube
lines like the Northern and Victoria. The key crossovers and
junctions are at Kings Cross and Finsbury Park.

I can't see how you get the trains rebalanced until the Picc Line
is available again to move stock through the tunnels.


What's to stop some of those at the east end being moved wrong road
from Arnos Grove to HPC?


But if stock is "parked up all over the place" in West London, the
problem would seem to be where the drivers are based, not where the
trains are.
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