Phil Reynolds wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:55 +0100, Walter Briscoe 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?

It is not unusual for a train to be taken from Circle Line service
and out to Aldgate East or even Whitechapel and then sent on its way
as if it had gone through Aldgate - the effect is to turn the train.

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.

Yeah. Have seen a C stock arrive at Mile End w/b on Circle Line duty
early on a Sunday too. I just imagined it had started life at
Plaistow/Barking.

I also saw a C stock at Mile End one Saturday evening a few years back,
but that was when Chelsea were playing West Ham. So it was some sort of
special added for the football traffic I'd imagine. I didn't see the
front of the train, but the indicator at the time said Wimbledon.

On Jul 21, 6:59*pm, "Stephen O'Connell" wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:55 +0100, Walter Briscoe 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?

It is not unusual for a train to be taken from Circle Line service
and out to Aldgate East or even Whitechapel and then sent on its way
as if it had gone through Aldgate - the effect is to turn the train.

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.

Yeah. Have seen a C stock arrive at Mile End w/b on Circle Line duty
early on a Sunday too. I just imagined it had started life at
Plaistow/Barking.

I also saw a C stock at Mile End one Saturday evening a few years back,
but that was when Chelsea were playing West Ham. So it was some sort of
special added for the football traffic I'd imagine. I didn't see the
front of the train, but the indicator at the time said Wimbledon.-

Years ago I saw a C stock train at Richmond with Edgware Road as the
destination. I've never worked out why any such move would be
necessary.

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.

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(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

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?

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.