LUL was pretty poor this morning due to overrunning engineering on the
Piccadilly near Barons Court - no trains between Hammersmith and Hyde
Park Corner, with trains from Heathrow being turned around at
Northfields, Acton Town and Hammersmith - I was dumped at Northfields,
took the next train which took about 20 minutes to get to Acton Town,
where we could finally change to the District - also going very slowly
due to all the Piccadilly people trying to get on and blocking the
doors. Two hours from LHR to Victoria, standing all the way of course.
On the other hand, I flew in from the US where I had all the familiar
problems of subway stations without ticket offices, only machines that
don't take cards (especially foreign ones), only give USD5 change, and
reject most of the dollar bills you feed in. Once you get in, the
systems generally run pretty well.
Tim