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"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
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wrote:

Aldgate is clearly a more passenger convenient location for turning LT
trains. Albeit, the location is cramped and operationally awkward.

These days Aldgate works on a one train in, one train out basis, which
(generally) works well and there is almost always a train at platform 2 or
platform 3. When there is a problem on the westbound, though, and a
departure is unable to leave, it can knock back on the eastbound, with
incoming trains unable to terminate. That's when Moorgate really comes
into its own, giving the ability to turn Mets (and sometimes Circles)
back - or, at worst, to refuge two of them in the bays.

What is going to happen with the FCC Thameslink bays at Moorgate once the
last train leaves, which I understand will be on 20 March.