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Jack Taylor · March 14th 09, 12:27 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

wrote:

Since Blackfriars is going to be closed for a considerable length of
time, almost three years, will LUL put up partitions at the platform
edges and allow trains to run through there at speed? What would it
take to reset the start signals to normal waysides, since now they
are in essence draw ups.

They might well put up platform protection for staff working on the
station - but I would imagine that the normal 5mph limit through the station
will apply. Allowing trains to pass through faster would cause chaos with
the timetables, not som much on the central section where all trains are
doing the same but on the branches where other services interface.