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Seven Sisters This Morning
Paul Corfield wrote:
Contingency plan to walk to the WAGN station was only to be met with staff who announced their station was also closed "at the request of the BTP" despite the incident being on the Victoria Line and WAGN trains were running through non stop. Any ideas why the BTP opted to close that too? A guess but it is virtually impossible to stop people alighting from the WAGN trains to head to the Tube regardless of how many announcements are made [1]. Given that, IIRC, the WAGN station stairs and corridors are not what you would call spacious there may have been concerns about serious overcrowding in a confined space as people diverting from the tube ran into the people heading off WAGN trains to the Tube. The other issue is that the WAGN train frequency is not very high and having to deal with lots of people waiting for the Tube to resume as well as people fed up with waiting for a train may have caused concern. Although I don't use Seven Sisters on a daily basis (Turnpike Lane is my local station) this isn't the first time I've turned up to find the Victoria Line closed including at least three times during the Piccadilly Line closure back in the Summer. However I've never found the WAGN station closed as well. Seven Sisters is so busy that the local buses can overwhelmed very quickly if the Tube ceases to run into town. Absolutely and you couldn't get on a 259 or 279 towards Manor House, so a long walk thus endured. I may know more tomorrow when I see the daily report. If you could let us know that'll be great. The only alternative is that there was a crime of some sort in the vicinity of the WAGN station. Possible, but the Police activity seemed to be centred on the Victoria Line. No sign of cordoning off the WAGN station entrance on Seven Sisters Road. The exact words I got told at the WAGN station was closed was a Police request and not overcrowding. [1] I've seen this too many times at Walthamstow Central when the Vic Line service has collapsed and everyone is trying to get to Liverpool St. One wonders how the lines into Liverpool Street ever coped pre-Victoria line days. -- Phil Richards London, UK Home Page: http://www.philrichards1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk |
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