"Richard J." wrote in message ...
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.

Are you for real?

A) It would have cost nothing to have kept Charing X on the line map as a
dotted special events connection so avoiding any confusion if trains had to go
there.

B) Extra staff? You mean extra 1 person to hang around on the platform making
pointless mind-the-doors messages? I'm sure they could find him/her from
the complement of staff already at the station.

C) A few passengers who get off a charing X? What about the 1000s who go to
westminster who instead of just going charing X-westminster on the district
had to go via the victoria line to victoria from green park then the district?
Sure , its only an extra 10 minutes , but then if you take that attitude why
not strip out half the tube lines in central london?

Is the tube there for the convenience of passengers or is it just a giant train
set for LU to run as easily as possible? Have a long think about that because
following your logic the entire circle line (along with a lot of the H&C) could
be closed as you can reach all the stations via other lines. And I won't even
mention the parallel running on met/jubilee/chiltern , district/piccadilly
lines.

B2003