District curiosity today
 

Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit surprised to
see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was this special
service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say i've seen any Ealing
Broadway to High St trains before.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

District curiosity today
 

On Apr 14, 2:05*am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit surprised to
see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was this special
service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say i've seen any Ealing
Broadway to High St trains before.


There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct.
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

District curiosity today
 

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Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit surprised to
see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was this special
service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say i've seen any Ealing
Broadway to High St trains before.

All trains from the west were terminating at Embankment due to
engineering works. I can't see it being able to cope with all the
trains that would normally be terminating at Tower Hill/Upminster so
some would need to go somewhere else. HSK is a logical one.

I pass a lot when I'm working early mornings as trains from Ealing
Common depot reverse at HSK to go to Wimbledon.
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District curiosity today
 

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On Apr 14, 2:05*am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit
surprised to see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was
this special service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say
i've seen any Ealing Broadway to High St trains before.

There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct.
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

It was 4 in the afternoon when I was there.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

District curiosity today
 

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Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit
surprised to see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was
this special service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say
i've seen any Ealing Broadway to High St trains before.

All trains from the west were terminating at Embankment due to
engineering works. I can't see it being able to cope with all the
trains that would normally be terminating at Tower Hill/Upminster so
some would need to go somewhere else. HSK is a logical one.

The last few times that there's been no service east of Embankment they've
wun Ealing Broadway - HSK and Richmond - Embankment. Not sure about the
Wimbledon branch.

District curiosity today
 

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On Apr 14, 2:05 am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit surprised to
see a District train pull up for High St Kensington. was this special
service for the Easter engineering works? I can't say i've seen any Ealing
Broadway to High St trains before.


There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct.
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

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It used to be the case that there was at least one run during the day to
turn over the Olympia shuttle set.

District curiosity today
 

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wrote in message
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On Apr 14, 2:05 am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit
surprised to see a District train pull up for High St Kensington.
was this special service for the Easter engineering works? I can't
say i've seen any Ealing Broadway to High St trains before.

There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct.
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

---------

It used to be the case that there was at least one run during the
day to turn over the Olympia shuttle set.

Not at 4 pm on Easter Monday, though!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

District curiosity today
 

On Apr 15, 12:27*am, wrote:
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(Graham Harrison) wrote:
wrote in message
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On Apr 14, 2:05 am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit
surprised to see a District train pull up for High St Kensington.
was this special service for the Easter engineering works? I can't
say i've seen any Ealing Broadway to High St trains before.

There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct.
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

---------

It used to be the case that there was at least one run during the
day to turn over the Olympia shuttle set.

Not at 4 pm on Easter Monday, though!


Yes, but as there was Engineering work on the City line ('problems on
the route via the City'), it is not surprising that Ealing services
were running to High Street Kensington.

As an aside, some of the Ealing - High St Ken services used to be
formed of C Stock which then took up Wimbleware services. However, I
don't know if this is still the case.

District curiosity today
 

On 15 Apr, 09:31, wrote:
On Apr 15, 12:27*am, wrote:





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(Graham Harrison) wrote:
wrote in message
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On Apr 14, 2:05 am, wrote:
Sitting at Acton Town on a Piccadilly train today I was a bit
surprised to see a District train pull up for High St Kensington.
was this special service for the Easter engineering works? I can't
say i've seen any Ealing Broadway to High St trains before.

There are a few early morning / late evening services that run direct..
Try searching on the TfL journey planner for Ealing Broadway - High
Street Kensington at around 06.00 or 23.45. They can also run this way
when there are problems on the route via the City.

---------

It used to be the case that there was at least one run during the
day to turn over the Olympia shuttle set.

Not at 4 pm on Easter Monday, though!

Yes, but as there was Engineering work on the City line ('problems on
the route via the City'), it is not surprising that Ealing services
were running to High Street Kensington.

As an aside, some of the Ealing - High St Ken services used to be
formed of C Stock which then took up Wimbleware services. However, I
don't know if this is still the case.- Hide quoted text -

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Many years ago, in the middle of the day, I saw C stock doing a run
from Richmond to Edgware Road.

Maybe there had been a temporary blockage on the Wimbledon route and
it was being fed back in, having not blocked Earl's Court.