"MaxB" wrote:
Well, it might be the most convenient for you, but it's useless for me.
Depends where you live, surely? Anyway, the tube was still running, so
there was no lack of transport connections across the river in central
London.

What's your local station that had it's service reduced to hourly
yesterday?

Elmstead Woods - and Charing Cross is still the best situated main line
station for central London, not terminating somewhere in the suburbs as so
many do!

Terminating somewhere in the suburbs? Sorry, but you're talking ****e.
Granted, Charing Cross is the closest mainline terminus to Central London,
being pretty much smack bang in the middle of the West End and all that, but
the other terminii are hardly out in the suburbs.

They're all within around 10 minutes of somewhere right in the centre -
Kings Cross, Euston, Marylebone, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo,
Blackfriars, Cannon Street, Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street and Moorgate
all fit that description. Paddington and Marylebone are vaguely far out
compared to the rest, but still nothing close to anything matching the
description of "somewhere in the suburbs".

And yes, for a night out in the West End, Charing Cross is the best placed
mainline station, but that's only any good if you live the South-East of the
centre (i.e. on a line that goes in to Charing Cross). For people coming in
from the West, East, North, North-West, South and South-West, train to
another London Terminus and then the tube is a much better bet. Well, with
the possible exception of the South, where a change at London Bridge will
get you straight to Charing Cross.

I can't see what you're moaning about though - surely you could have just
changed at London Bridge for Blackfriars and got you just as close as
Charing Cross would have done?

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