On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:19:27 -0000, John Rowland
wrote:

Dave Arquati wrote:

I dug around on the LU intranet today to answer my own question, and
uncovered the exciting life of Olympia trains... it turns out that the
first pair head out from Ealing Common depot each morning to High St
Ken and do some shuttling (with gaps in the morning peak when they
dive off to run a couple of extra Wimbledon HSK services), then
one of them disappears off to Ealing again whilst another one comes
from Ealing to replace it. They carry on all day, until one runs the
only through Olympia service of the day to Upminster, and the other
goes to HSK and then sneaks off to Ealing depot. The careful balance
of life on the District line is restored when the Upminster one heads
over to Ealing in the morning and then forms that replacement service
after the AM peak.
I suppose if the same trains were constantly shuttling back and forth,
they'd suffer from the uneven wheel wear problem that Circle line
trains would get if they didn't get reversed at Aldgate East every so
often.

Nothing you have described above reverses the trains.

I don't believe Dave said they were reversed. He stated that the timetable
prevents a problem similar to that effecting Circle line trains if they
[the Circle line trains] are not reversed.

--
Fig