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Old July 27th 15, 12:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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On 27/07/2015 12:01, y wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:53:06 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 27/07/2015 11:21,
y wrote:
Anyone know why? And how come Overground think the route is so

inconsequential
that they can just shut it for 2 days during the working week and to hell

with
the travelling public?

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Crossrail work at Whitechapel according to TfLs website.

And it's not to hell with the travelling public - they have rail
replacement buses, seemingly a vast number of them given how Cable


Replacement bus services in london are a joke in the rush hour. You'd
often be quicker walking.

Well, if you can't run a train service (and there are sometimes reasons
why you can't), what else are they meant to offer? A rail replacement
helicopter service?!?