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The tannoy said at paddington this morning, anyway. Lots of people hanging
arround outside. I went outside to try and find Lancaster Gate (I was
assuming the entire underground hadn't been closed, jsut the PAD station)
and Praed Street was open. I assume H&C was also open, but they didn't
direct people to those places.

What happened?

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The tannoy said at paddington this morning, anyway. Lots of people hanging
arround outside. I went outside to try and find Lancaster Gate (I was
assuming the entire underground hadn't been closed, jsut the PAD station)
and Praed Street was open. I assume H&C was also open, but they didn't
direct people to those places.

What happened?

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with where he works and all that lovely disclaimery stuff.
Posted in his lunch hour too.



I don't know but the tube had lots of problems today.

There was late running of engineering works somewhere on the Richmond/Ealing
Bdwy branch of the District line. For some reason this meant my tube from
Wimbledon to Earls Court was excessively overcrowded (the drivier even
announced "This train is as full as it's going to get") yet when we got to
Earls Court there was a nearly empty train to Barking (presumably from
Richmond/Ealing unless it came from Olympia). Why was the delay affecting
my branch more than the branch the delay was on?


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Chris wrote:
"Paul Weaver" wrote in message
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The tannoy said at paddington this morning, anyway. Lots of people hanging
arround outside. I went outside to try and find Lancaster Gate (I was
assuming the entire underground hadn't been closed, jsut the PAD station)
and Praed Street was open. I assume H&C was also open, but they didn't
direct people to those places.

What happened?

--
Everything above is the personal opinion of the author, and nothing to do
with where he works and all that lovely disclaimery stuff.
Posted in his lunch hour too.




I don't know but the tube had lots of problems today.

There was late running of engineering works somewhere on the Richmond/Ealing
Bdwy branch of the District line. For some reason this meant my tube from
Wimbledon to Earls Court was excessively overcrowded (the drivier even
announced "This train is as full as it's going to get") yet when we got to
Earls Court there was a nearly empty train to Barking (presumably from
Richmond/Ealing unless it came from Olympia). Why was the delay affecting
my branch more than the branch the delay was on?


The problem was at Acton Town... not sure why your branch was so
overcrowded - perhaps they had problems moving some stock into position
for the peak services, and a service or two had been cancelled on the
Wimbledon branch.

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The problem was at Acton Town... not sure why your branch was so
overcrowded - perhaps they had problems moving some stock into position
for the peak services, and a service or two had been cancelled on the
Wimbledon branch.



ALL the trains were C stock going to Edgware road


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Chris wrote:
The problem was at Acton Town... not sure why your branch was so
overcrowded - perhaps they had problems moving some stock into position
for the peak services, and a service or two had been cancelled on the
Wimbledon branch.


ALL the trains were C stock going to Edgware road


Oh... that's the problem then, isn't it? All the "main line" District
services were probably getting stuck near Acton Town (probably including
Richmonds, if there was a queue getting into Acton).


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