Rob wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
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Speaking as a regular H&C user, they may as well be on strike every
day for all the use the service is.

It's so unreliable with random intervals between trains frequently
reaching 20 minutes, even at peak hours, that it's almost always
quicker to take an alternative route than wait in vain for the H&C.

For example, it's almost always quicker to walk from Whitechapel to
Liverpool Street (about 15 mins) that wait ages for the train, which
will then waste another 5 mins just west of Aldgate East waiting for
the Met trains to be out of the way.

Some dot matrix signs at Whitechapel might help a bit (at the moment
there's no way of telling if an H&C is 2 mins away, or 20). Anyone
know if these are planned in the near future?

Rob.

There will be no need, if the information i've been given is correct.
The h&c will reverse at algate, the Met main will reverse at barking,
whitechaple is being rebuilt, it wIll be a normal station where no
trains will reverse. should be complete by 2025,

Rebuilding of Whitechapel is required in order to have enough room to
provide interchange with Crossrail. Details at
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/80256B090...elStation.html
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Richard J.
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