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Old August 27th 07, 09:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Helen Deborah Vecht Helen Deborah Vecht is offline
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Default Camden Town revisited - many times, many,many times

"John Rowland" typed


Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(sweek) wrote:

More trains and less delays will ease congestion, making this worth
the effort, I think. And there is quite a good chance you will get a
seat when changing at Camden Town, since a lot of other people will
be getting off and changing for the other line, too.


If you arrive at Camden Town on a crush loaded train do you really
think you will be able to change to a train that is not crush loaded?
So if you had a seat before you won't in future in the peak hour.


That is a bizarre thing to say about a plan to increase the number of seats
per hour.


The people who work at Kings Cross and go home to Edgware will have a seat
after Camden, whereas now they have to stand most of the way home.



I suspect the greatly increased dwell times at Camden Town might reduce
significantly the number of trains that can use the lines.

A passenger injury or two on changing trains would make staff very wary
about hurrying.

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