On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, D7666 wrote:

On Jun 12, 12:01 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

That's it, though - between KX and Blackfriars, it's great, but outside
that, it gets rubbish fast, as most of the trains are fasts, and don't
stop at Kentish Town, Elephant, etc.

Eh?

''most of the trains are fasts'' ????

Either read a timetable or don't exaggerate.

Never!

Core pattern is 50% are 'fast' and 50% are 'slow' - half the trains
through KX/Blackfriars all call at both stations you cite - Kentish Town
anf E&C.

My apologies. I was thinking of the post-TLnK plan, where there should be
24 tph through the core, but only 6 tph suburban trains. At present, it's
8 total, of which 4 are suburban.

Thus, my point that the frequency at the suburban stations is too low to
be useful as a tube line stands, and moreover, Jon Morris's point, which
you've helpfully snipped, that "the service frequency from King's Cross to
Blackfriars makes it almost as good as any other tube line" is also shown
to be an outrageous lie - 8 tph is barely a turn-up-and-go frequency, and
not what i call tube frequency. Perhaps if you've been unlucky enough to
grow up out in the western branches of the Magical District Line Tree, you
might think so, but as someone who lives at Finsbury Park, i don't.

tom

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