Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

In article
,
(MIG) wrote:

Nowadays, the Barking sidings are mainly used for C stock, with the
odd bit of D stock, but I think before the Jubilee extension and its
effects on Neasden, there wasn't much C stock stabled at Barking, but
some was stabled at Neasden. I wondered how they went into service
from there, but I never saw it happening.

Via the Met and Baker St, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

In article
,
(MIG) wrote:

On Jul 21, 8:24*pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article ,

(Phil Reynolds) wrote:
The C stocks can serve virtually all of the District Line - not
just
Wimbleware - but if you saw a Circle at Aldgate East, it was
probably being turned.

They only have the Wimbleware part of the District on their line
diagrams.

They used to oddly have Olympia, even though they didn't go there as
far as I know.

They did for a time, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:30:23 -0700 (PDT), MIG
wrote:

On Jul 21, 8:24*pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article ,

(Phil Reynolds) wrote:
The C stocks can serve virtually all of the District Line - not just
Wimbleware - but if you saw a Circle at Aldgate East, it was
probably being turned.

They only have the Wimbleware part of the District on their line
diagrams.

They used to oddly have Olympia, even though they didn't go there as
far as I know.

I may be mistaken but I thought that there was a service from Edgware
Road to Olympia that ran for a short period of time.

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:45:56 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

I may be mistaken but I thought that there was a service from Edgware
Road to Olympia that ran for a short period of time.

ISTR that as well. What currently serves Olympia?

Neil

--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:42 +0100 (BST), Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

Nowadays, the Barking sidings are mainly used for C stock, with the
odd bit of D stock, but I think before the Jubilee extension and its
effects on Neasden, there wasn't much C stock stabled at Barking, but
some was stabled at Neasden. I wondered how they went into service
from there, but I never saw it happening.

Via the Met and Baker St, surely?

But did they go into service at Wembley Park (or Finchley Road, or the
Met platforms at Baker Street), and if so were they advertised as
Aldgate or Circle Line?

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:45:56 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

I may be mistaken but I thought that there was a service from Edgware
Road to Olympia that ran for a short period of time.

ISTR that as well. What currently serves Olympia?

D Stock on shuttles from High St Ken.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:14:46 +0100, James Farrar wrote:

At about 07.40 on Sunday morning 20/07/08, I saw a westbound train at
Aldgate East. The destination on the front was "CIRCLE LINE". There was no
mention of it on the platform train describer. The PA sounded something
akin to: "This is a Circle Line service via Liverpool Street".

Where might it have been parked?
What wanderings do Circle Line services do?

Probably entering service from Upney (Barking) sidings, where a number of
C-stock trains are berthed nightly.

I recall this service from my time living in Barking. It always caused a
degree of confusion to the bleary-eyed, early on a Sunday. Not least
because, with no H&C service east of Whitechapel on a Sunday, nobody at
Barking expected to see a C-stock train in service.

Plus, of course, the obvious question as to whether this 'Circle Line' train
would become a clockwise or anti-clockwise service!

Surely it should announce as H&C to Edgware Road or District to
Gloucester Road (is that possible?), as appropriate, until reaching
Liverpool Street/Tower Hill?

This reminds me of the late evening (and weekend, during engineering
works) D Stock services from Ealing Broadway and Richmond to High St
Kensington. This is impossible on the current Tube Map, so should they
be advertised as Earl's Court as far as Earl's Court? (The light-box
indicator at Acton Town actually does this, as it doesn't have HSK.)

I'm also reminded of westbound H&C services at (e.g.) Farringdon,
which are advertised as "Hammersmith via Shepherd's Bush" (both on the
dot matrix indicators and the fronts of the trains), despite the
current SSL service pattern making Hammersmith via Notting Hill Gate
rather unlikely.

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

"asdf" wrote in message
...

This reminds me of the late evening (and weekend, during engineering
works) D Stock services from Ealing Broadway and Richmond to High St
Kensington. This is impossible on the current Tube Map ...

That's why the drivers have to carry a copy of the London Connections map,
where fortunately the route remains available... :-)

Paul S

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Jul 21, 9:19*pm, asdf wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:42 +0100 (BST), Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
Nowadays, the Barking sidings are mainly used for C stock, with the
odd bit of D stock, but I think before the Jubilee extension and its
effects on Neasden, there wasn't much C stock stabled at Barking, but
some was stabled at Neasden. *I wondered how they went into service
from there, but I never saw it happening.

Via the Met and Baker St, surely?

But did they go into service at Wembley Park (or Finchley Road, or the
Met platforms at Baker Street), and if so were they advertised as
Aldgate or Circle Line?

Yeah, I didn't mean physically how, but I was wondering what they
did. For example, would everything entering service from Neasden run
clockwise, or did some reverse etc etc.

Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
 

On Jul 21, 9:22*pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article ,

(Neil Williams) wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:45:56 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

I may be mistaken but I thought that there was a service from Edgware
Road to Olympia that ran for a short period of time.

ISTR that as well. *What currently serves Olympia?

D Stock on shuttles from High St Ken.

I didn't remember C stock going to Olympia. Was it a very short
period that service ran for?

It wouldn't explain Olympia being on the C stock diagrams in any case
because as far as I know it was on there consistently (and oddly) from
about 1979 till the last couple of years.