"Matthew P Jones" wrote in message
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This morning I was on a northbound Bakerloo train coming into
Paddington. There was an announcement over the P A along the lines of
"at the request of the police this train will not stop at Edgware Road".
This announcement was repeated a few times, including when we were
stationery at Paddington.

I have to assume the driver made the announcement, it sounded very
different from the automated announcements of station names. Now, if you
have not spotted the confusion, the train had already stopped at Edgware
Road before it got to Paddington. It is rather worrying that the driver
did not know where they were, or are, or where they were going or where
they had already stopped!

I'm not sure what occurred in that area this morning. I walked from
Marylebone to Paddington at about 10:10 (en route to Heathrow to see another
Concorde depart!) and the Westway was closed from Old Marylebone Road, with
fire engines and police at the corner. Similarly, Edgware Road was closed
from the junction with Praed Street/Chapel Street to a point north of
Edgware Road Bakerloo line station. No evidence of any road incident -
probably another of those mysterious gas leaks that the Marylebone flyover
seems prone to! g