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October 13th 03, 02:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

Robin May

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Jubilee line screwup

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"Richard J." wrote in message
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So rather than use Charing X as a reversing siding (which is what
happens now), you want passengers to be diverted to a station
which is not (normally) on their line, with all the confusion
that that would cause, extra staff required, etc. etc. All for
the sake of a few passengers who would like to get off at Charing
X even though they boarded a train that shouldn't have gone
there. Oh, and they could have changed at Baker Street and
caught a Bakerloo train to Charing X anyway.

Case dismissed.

Are you for real?

A) It would have cost nothing to have kept Charing X on the line
map as a
dotted special events connection so avoiding any confusion if
trains had to go there.

Keeping Charing Cross for emergencies and special workings was
considered, but decided against for several reasons. Charing Cross had
quite low passenger numbers on the Jubilee line. The escalators were
also pretty much at the end of their working life and so to keep the
station open or available on the Jubilee line would have required
escalator replacement which is very expensive, especially for a station
which would only be used for emergencies.

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