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MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 05/01/2020 22:34, tim... wrote:
(nor the central Met/District)

Who'd have thought that this would make it so hard to get where you want
to go in Z1

You have to find the alternative bus route/stop and the alternative
journey take "forever"

Of course it's my fault really for not putting my journey into the
planner before I travelled

tim

I'll never understand how they can still call it the Circle line when it
doesn't go in a circle any more. What was wrong with the Hammersmith &
City..? Or even the Metropolitan come to that.

Why do people have to mess with things that aren't broken..?



We know from your posts that you have a hankering for things that you
perceive as being better in the past but if you went back far enough would
you be moaning the the other routes that were called circles that existed
around london before the deep tube lines really got established were not
complete circles or is it a case of the era you remember because you were
there must be the golden age that transcends all others.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ian_London.png

GH

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On 06/01/2020 18:40, Marland wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 05/01/2020 22:34, tim... wrote:
(nor the central Met/District)

Who'd have thought that this would make it so hard to get where you want
to go in Z1

You have to find the alternative bus route/stop and the alternative
journey take "forever"

Of course it's my fault really for not putting my journey into the
planner before I travelled

tim

I'll never understand how they can still call it the Circle line when it
doesn't go in a circle any more. What was wrong with the Hammersmith &
City..? Or even the Metropolitan come to that.

Why do people have to mess with things that aren't broken..?



We know from your posts that you have a hankering for things that you
perceive as being better in the past but if you went back far enough would
you be moaning the the other routes that were called circles that existed
around london before the deep tube lines really got established were not
complete circles or is it a case of the era you remember because you were
there must be the golden age that transcends all others.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ian_London.png

GH


Not complete circles then? I guess that things are so much better now.

I regularly escort a disabled wife from Baker Street to South
Kensington, she is so grateful that nowadays she has to get out, get on
and sometimes use the steep footbridge at Edgware Road.

Circle Line. Huh!

PA

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In article ,
MissRiaElaine wrote:
I'll never understand how they can still call it the Circle line when it
doesn't go in a circle any more.

But it never went in a circle. It was shaped more like a gourd with a spout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle...Line_(old).svg

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On 06/01/2020 18:57, Peter Able wrote:
On 06/01/2020 18:40, Marland wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 05/01/2020 22:34, tim... wrote:
(nor the central Met/District)

Who'd have thought that this would make it so hard to get where you
want
to go in Z1

You have to find the alternative bus route/stop and the alternative
journey take "forever"

Of course it's my fault really for not putting my journey into the
planner before I travelled

tim

I'll never understand how they can still call it the Circle line when it
doesn't go in a circle any more. What was wrong with the Hammersmith &
City..? Or even the Metropolitan come to that.

Why do people have to mess with things that aren't broken..?



We know from your posts that you have a hankering for things that you
perceive as being better in the past but if you went back far enough
would
you be moaning the the other routes that were called circles that existed
around london before the deepÂ* tube lines really got established were not
complete circles or is it a case of the era you remember because you were
there must be the golden age that transcends all others.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ian_London.png


GH


Not complete circles then?Â* I guess that things are so much better now.

I regularly escort a disabled wife from Baker Street to South
Kensington, she is so grateful that nowadays she has to get out, get on
and sometimes use the steep footbridge at Edgware Road.

Circle Line.Â* Huh!


Go the other way round?


--
Graeme Wall
This account not read.

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On 06/01/2020 19:49, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 06/01/2020 18:57, Peter Able wrote:

Not complete circles then?Â* I guess that things are so much better now.

I regularly escort a disabled wife from Baker Street to South
Kensington, she is so grateful that nowadays she has to get out, get
on and sometimes use the steep footbridge at Edgware Road.

Circle Line.Â* Huh!


Go the other way round?

It doesn't go the other way round, that's the point. You'd end up in
Hammersmith.


--
Ria in Aberdeen

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In article ,
MissRiaElaine wrote:
I regularly escort a disabled wife from Baker Street to South
Kensington, she is so grateful that nowadays she has to get out, get
on and sometimes use the steep footbridge at Edgware Road.

Go the other way round?

It doesn't go the other way round, that's the point. You'd end up in
Hammersmith.

Hmmn. If you were to get on an eastbound Circle line train at Baker
Street, where do you think it would go?


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On 06/01/2020 20:35, MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 06/01/2020 19:49, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 06/01/2020 18:57, Peter Able wrote:

Not complete circles then?Â* I guess that things are so much better now.

I regularly escort a disabled wife from Baker Street to South
Kensington, she is so grateful that nowadays she has to get out, get
on and sometimes use the steep footbridge at Edgware Road.

Circle Line.Â* Huh!


Go the other way round?

It doesn't go the other way round, that's the point. You'd end up in
Hammersmith.



From Baker street you can still get to South Ken without changing
because it does go the other way round.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read.

no circle line today
 

MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 05/01/2020 22:34, tim... wrote:
(nor the central Met/District)

Who'd have thought that this would make it so hard to get where you want
to go in Z1

You have to find the alternative bus route/stop and the alternative
journey take "forever"

Of course it's my fault really for not putting my journey into the
planner before I travelled

tim

I'll never understand how they can still call it the Circle line when it
doesn't go in a circle any more. What was wrong with the Hammersmith &
City..?

That still runs, but there's been a much-needed increase in the frequency
of the trains between Hammersmith and Paddington. The reshaping of the
Circle line was needed for that.

Or even the Metropolitan come to that.

What about it?


Why do people have to mess with things that aren't broken..?

It was. Why do you always assume that today's London has the same transport
demands as it did in the 1960s?

no circle line today
 

On 06/01/2020 21:44, Graeme Wall wrote:

From Baker street you can still get to South Ken without changing
because it does go the other way round.

Yes, but it's the long way round. It's a lot quicker to go
anti-clockwise between those two places than the other way. Or at least
it was.


--
Ria in Aberdeen

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MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 06/01/2020 21:44, Graeme Wall wrote:

From Baker street you can still get to South Ken without changing
because it does go the other way round.

Yes, but it's the long way round. It's a lot quicker to go
anti-clockwise between those two places than the other way. Or at least
it was.

The quickest way, and probably the one with the least non-avoidable stairs,
would be via Green Park.