please empty your brain below
... i almost miss london.

NEF | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Ooh, the suspense is killing me already...

There are some advantages to the nu-circle line: there are now far more trains down the Hammersmith - Paddington section of the H&C line. Normally, they're as rare as hen's teeth, especially in the off-peak - but it was far easier for me to get a Hammersmith-bound train to work from Kings Cross yesterday and today.

martin | 28.06.09 - 10:37 a.m. | #

"South Kensington: Ohmigodohmigod. My carriage was suddenly invaded by a troupe of French schoolchildren, fresh from a visit to the London Transport Museum."

Eh? When I last looked, the London Transport Museum was in Covent Garden...

Dave | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 12:06 p.m. | #

London Transport Museum in South Kensington? Deliberate mistake, right?

Graham | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 12:14 p.m. | #

No, really, they were all clutching lurid green London Transport Museum activity sheets, freshly stamped and punched.

If you're a French group leader trying to get 30 kids from Covent Garden to your hotel in Bayswater, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to change at South Kensington.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 12:23 p.m. | #

I noticed it on the tfl journey planner yesterday. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lok...lin/3665578198/
 I didn't do the full circle but still a small, nerdy part of me was excited to be traveling on the new circle/spiral line secretly knowing that most people would not be aware of the significance.

lokulin | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 12:25 p.m. | #

A pedant writes: it's rather wrong to say "there's no orbital track at a station with buffers" when Aldgate, Tower Hill and Mansion House all have platforms with buffer stops at one end.

Forest Pines | Homepage | 28.06.09 - 3:12 p.m. | #

FP: and Moorgate, High St Ken, and (stretching it a bit) Baker St. And, once upon a time, Liverpool St and South Kensington as well!

kenromford | 28.06.09 - 7:13 p.m. | #

Just in case you think these problems are confined to London:

I once got on a train at York,intending to travel to Harrogate. An automated voice said 'This train is for Liverpool Lime Street'. I looked around cautiously. Trains do go from York to Liverpool, but they don't normally look like this or go from this platform. The train pulled out. It arrived in Poppleton, the first station out of York in the direction of Harrogate (and certainly not on the way to Liverpool). The automated voice said 'This is Liverpool Lime Street'. One of the passeners remarked 'It's very green'.

Andrew M | 28.06.09 - 9:10 p.m. | #

I can imagine the confusion that will arise when they eventually introduce the new Circle line service. Fortunately, I don't often need to use it.

Andrewh | 29.06.09 - 12:22 a.m. | #

Aha! So that's why on my way home to E3 from Heathrow last night after a free trip on the Heathrow Express (Piccadilly part closed), I had to catch the Circle from Paddington to Liverpool Street before changing to the H&C to Stepney Green (Mile End closd)... Oh, and a final change at Whitechapel...
Looking forward to the Edgware Road story: I've never had a good tube-changing experience there - who has?

EskimoPie | 29.06.09 - 8:51 a.m. | #

"If you're a French group leader trying to get 30 kids from Covent Garden to your hotel in Bayswater, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to change at South Kensington"

That shows a leader who's done some homework - with the Circle Line broken at Edgware Road it's the shortest way of doing it with only one change - important if you don't want to lose any of them!
As they were presumably returning to
their hotel, they may have had first-hand experience of Edgware Road earlier on.
And of course, with a little MORE homework, the leader would have realised how close Queensway is to Bayswater (and Holborn to the Museum)!

Norbiton Flyer | 29.06.09 - 2:48 p.m. | #

Was that supposed to be '27 / 28 June service changes leaflet'?

dg nods: Yup, June rather than July. Cheers.

Dave | Homepage | 30.06.09 - 10:49 a.m. | #











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