On 10 Feb, 20:24, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:17:08 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:
I receive TfL email travel alerts which included this gem today:

CIRCLE LINE: Severe delays are occurring due to the late finish of
engineering work at Finchley Road.

Some of the C stock used for the Circle line stables at Neasden as there
is not enough space at Hammersmith and the other bolt holes like
Triangle sidings and elsewhere.

There were severe problems with flooding on the Met Line tracks last
night - burst main and a collapsed drain I think - and remedial work to
get the water away overran. *This would explain why, in part, there were
severe delays.

Can and does LU claim against Thames Water when such incidents occur?


The other element is just that the complex interworking of the North
side of the Circle can get badly knocked out if just one of the lines
goes wrong and trains miss their slots at the junctions at Baker St,
Aldgate north and south, Gloucester Rd / High St Ken and Edgware Road.
You may well see the Met Line have delays even though a signal failure
is at Edgware Road.