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Old January 10th 07, 02:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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Default The new service pattern on the Circle and H&C lines

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, asdf wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:07:54 -0000, John Rowland wrote:

Personally I dont see why the Met line has to run to Barking?

Because at the moment, the Met trains empty out in one direction and
fill up in the other. It's better to have them filling up with new
people as the old ones get out.

And by swapping the eastern destinations of the Met and H&C, exactly
the same thing happens with the H&C...


But the Met east of Baker Street has 120 carriages per peak hour, whereas
the H&C has something like 48 carriages per peak hour.


But if 15 Met tph are to head through Aldgate East, some Districts will
have to be cut back to Tower Hill (and/or Mansion House) to make room,
which just shifts the same situation onto those Districts.


No, because the Mets replace H&Cs.

tom

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