MIG wrote:
On Jan 23, 6:50 pm, Boltar wrote:
On 23 Jan, 17:58, Paul Bowery wrote:

Has this ever been considered? Trains could run from
Barking/Whitechapel to Edgware Road and then on to either
Hammersmith or Wimbledon. Abolish the Circle Line to get the
extra C stock necessary, and use the spare D stock trains for
Kensington Olympia-Tower Hill-Barking District Line services.
Would there be enough C stock trains to do this? Probably have to
terminate some at Edgware Road.

I think it would be a good idea for the wimbleware branch to be
shown as a seperate line on the diagrams in the same way the H&C
was hived off from the Met years ago. Using D stock its not
possible to have a through route to Edgware road therefor that
branch shouldn't be part of the District line. Having it shown as
a seperate line would make it less confusing for all IMO though
god knows what colour is left that they could use.

B2003

I've noticed that for the last year or so the Olympia line has
finally been taken off the internal diagrams in the C stock, which
never went there as far as I know.

But it may be the D stock going to Olympia that makes it difficult
to separate (although why shouldn't C stock go there anyway I
wonder?).

I've seen C stock on an Edgware Road - Olympia service at weekends,
probably when engineering work has disrupted the normal service pattern.
Olympia is available as a destination on the platform indicators between
Hig St Ken and Edgware Road.

D stock is more reliable than C, and hence it is probably better to rely
on D-stock trains from Ealing Common depot than C-stock from
Hammersmith.

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Richard J.
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