MIG wrote:
On Apr 13, 12:43 pm, "Ian F." wrote:
"MIG" wrote in message

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Are these the improvements that are due to resignalling but being
attributed to splitting the line in order to justify the
inconvenience caused by that, but then attributed to the signalling
as well to justify the disruption caused by the signalling work,

It always puzzles me why they think no one travelling south to north
wants to go to the West End. Often there are hundreds of people
changing at Kennington, with just a few left on the train to go to
the City.

I think that's purely because terminating at Kennington from the
Charing Cross direction is much easier operationally (from the City
requires reversing in a siding, not that that isn't done in plenty of
other places).

There's a rather nice diagram of Kennington on my site at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../stations.html
In particular, Charing Cross reversers don't have to share track with any
City trains, whereas City reversers have to share track first with Charing
Cross-Mordens and then with Morden - Charing Crosses. LUL are well aware
that the West End is much busier than the City outside the peaks, but for
fit people a cross-platform interchange is practically as good as a through
train.