Boltar wrote:
"Richard J." wrote in message
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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.

But creating massive confusion to thousands of tourists who won't
necessarily read the small print about "special events".

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?

The District doesn't serve Charing Cross. Why would thousands of people
choose to change at Westminster to the District and have a long walk up
Villiers Street from Embankment, when they could have changed at Baker
Street to the Bakerloo, or other alternatives from Bond Street or Green Park
if starting there. Again, you are arguing on behalf of people who got on
the wrong line anyway!

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.

Following logic isn't a strength of yours, is it?
--
Richard J.
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