The following currently (1150) appears on the TfL real time website:

The Hammersmith & City Line has no service between Hammersmith H&C Station
and Edgware Road Station in both directions. This will affect journeys from
05:31 on 12/07/04 until further notice.This is due to police request at
Westbourne Park Station.
Message Received: 12/7/2004 5:31:26 AM

Is this true? If so does anyone know what the problem is and, given that
this would seem to be effective from the start of traffic, are there any H&C
trains in service at all, as most are stabled at Hammersmith?

J Lynch wrote:
The following currently (1150) appears on the TfL real time website:

The Hammersmith & City Line has no service between Hammersmith H&C
Station and Edgware Road Station in both directions. This will
affect journeys from 05:31 on 12/07/04 until further notice.This is
due to police request at Westbourne Park Station.
Message Received: 12/7/2004 5:31:26 AM

Is this true? If so does anyone know what the problem is and, given
that this would seem to be effective from the start of traffic, are
there any H&C trains in service at all, as most are stabled at
Hammersmith?

Service restored at 14:59. I can only assume that a serious crime was
committed at Westbourne Park during the night, and that the police
needed to collect forensic evidence on or near the tracks. Over 9 hours
seems excessive, though. Presumably there were enough trains berthed in
stabling sidings such as Edgware Road to run the service on the rest of
the line.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"Richard J." wrote in message
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Service restored at 14:59. I can only assume that a serious crime was
committed at Westbourne Park during the night, and that the police
needed to collect forensic evidence on or near the tracks. Over 9 hours
seems excessive, though.

About normal when it involves suspending the railway. If it's on a highway
and the victim isn't a police officer it's normally shorter for some strange
reason.

Presumably there were enough trains berthed in
stabling sidings such as Edgware Road to run the service on the rest of
the line.

Several trains start from Barking, Farringdon and Triangle (Earl's Court)
sidings to enable a full circle line and limited service to Whitechapel.

There was also a signal failure on the District and person ill on a train at
Liverpool Street. Glad I'm on leave!

J Lynch wrote:
The following currently (1150) appears on the TfL real time website:

The Hammersmith & City Line has no service between Hammersmith H&C Station
and Edgware Road Station in both directions. This will affect journeys from
05:31 on 12/07/04 until further notice.This is due to police request at
Westbourne Park Station.
Message Received: 12/7/2004 5:31:26 AM

Is this true? If so does anyone know what the problem is and, given that
this would seem to be effective from the start of traffic, are there any H&C
trains in service at all, as most are stabled at Hammersmith?

There was an item on BBC London tonight about a murder investigation in
Westbourne Park, body was found quite near to the railway.

Stuart wrote in
:



There was an item on BBC London tonight about a murder investigation
in Westbourne Park, body was found quite near to the railway.



A train driver saw a body hanging over a fence close to the tracks and
resulting police investigation forced the partial closure of the H&C.

woutster