Boltar wrote:
"Robin Mayes" wrote in message
...

Plus it would have been nice if LU had listened to what people
were saying about using Charing X as a backup terminus instead
of just closing the jubilee platforms and walling up the
escalators for no good reason.

Money?

How much money would it have cost to kept the station mothballed?
A bit of maintenance now and then and some cleaning? Not a lot.
Instead they decided to spend loads of cash walling up the
escalators and ripping all the fittings down (or so I've been told,
obviously I haven't seen it myself though I have seen the wall).
And its not like it was another Ongar , it was a connection to a
major london railway terminus.

So rather than use Charing X as a reversing siding (which is what happens
now), you want passengers to be diverted to a station which is not
(normally) on their line, with all the confusion that that would cause,
extra staff required, etc. etc. All for the sake of a few passengers who
would like to get off at Charing X even though they boarded a train that
shouldn't have gone there. Oh, and they could have changed at Baker Street
and caught a Bakerloo train to Charing X anyway.

Case dismissed.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)