"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in
:

Both the London Lite and the Evening Standard today carried news about
changes to the Circle Line due this December. The level of journalism
isn't the best - both talked about the "Hammersmith & City Line" being
"extended" from Aldgate to Barking, so the reports may not be 100%
accurate.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...etails/Circle+
line+changes+shape+and+heads+off+to+Hammersmith/article.do

As discussed previously on this group, the plan is to reallocate the
Circle, H&C and Metropolitan lines as follows:

a) Met diverted from Aldgate to Barking, taking over the H&C branch
b) The Circle line service disappears
c) The Hammersmith branch of the H&C is combined with the Circle so
trains run from Hammersmith to Edgware Road then once round the inner
circle.

Trains on the Hammersmith branch will be doubled. There will be no
regular through service between the west and north of the circle, but
passengers are being promised cross platform interchange. Also flagged
as a positive is that there is a depot on the line route (the Circle
lacks one).

Interestingly the reports suggest that on the return journey the
trains will run directly back to Hammersmith, rather than back round
the circle first. There will be an alternative route that runs the
other way round the circle.

The East London Advertiser, instead, suggests a single route with the
trains going back round the circle:

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.u...s/advertiser/n
ews/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=no rthlondon24&tCate
gory=newsela&itemid=WeED05%20Mar%202009%2013%3A37% 3A46%3A103




The TfL press releases
(http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/11300.aspx) says

"The new service will run from Hammersmith (H & C station) to Edgware Road
station and then join the current Circle at Edgware Road and make a single
loop, terminating at Edgware Road station. It will then reverse and do the
full circle anti-clockwise, returning to Hammersmith."

which has been reported by the Standard as

"From December, Circle line trains will start in Hammersmith, run along the
current Hammersmith & City line to Edgware Road and then do a clockwise lap
of the Circle line and head back to Hammersmith. They would then do the
journey anti-clockwise."

David