"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Sir Benjamin Nunn wrote:

"Mike Bristow" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jarle H Knudsen wrote:

How will the sub-surface lines be restructured?

There are many proposals; the last one I heard mooted was to

1) replace the circle and H&C with a 'tea-cup' service
(Hammersmith - Edgeware Road - once round the circle
and terminate at Edgeware Road, and the reverse route)

That's just horrible.

You couldn't travel round the circle from, say, Baker Street to Notting
Hill
Gate, but would need to go on a Westbound/Hammersmith bound train, change
at
Edgware Road, then get on another (but entirely different)
Westbound/Hammersmith bound train at a much earlier stage of its route.

Yes. It does strike me as quite silly. The only way it would make some
sense is if they also extended the Wimblewares beyond Edgware Road, say to
Aldgate (or maybe Moorgate); you could then get a train from anywhere
along the northern side of the Circle 'round the corner' to as far as High
Street Kensington. You still couldn't do Baker Street to, say, Gloucester
Road that way, but there wouldn't be many station pairs there for which
there wasn't a quicker route across town (touch wood). However, i don't
think there's the capacity for this.


I'd like to see Wimbleware made a second branch of the H & C (and possibly
also make Olympia a third branch). Seems like that would count for the right
amount of trains on the Western side of the circle, but without any
bi-directional nonsense in the Edgware Road and Paddington areas.

Another option would be for two circle services - Wimbledon-Wimbledon via
the loop, and maybe Barking-Barking. If the problem is they don't want
trains scheduled to go round and round continuously, then how about two or
more services that between them will allow continuous travel around it in
one direction or the other, as happens on the Chicago L loop.


I'd find the concept confusing; God knows what a visitor would make of
it.

I think it's only confusing because you're used to something else: a
suitably-drawn map would make it pretty straightforward.


Well, I've been used to the Victoria and Northern lines going North and
Southbound in the same directions between Euston and Kings X for years.
Being used to it doesn't make it any more straightforward, logical or
elegant.

BTN