Richard M Willis wrote:

But, what an unbalanced service ? Barking to Metroland would take ages. Is
there significant traffic demand for that route ? Are there many people
wanting to go all the way ?

Well there's an awful lot of interchanging at Liverpool Street that could do
with a more reliable service to Aldgate East and beyond...

Whitechapel to Metroland is not actually that much further than the current
Met - and also from a commuter point of view this would provide direct
interchanges with routes into Docklands.

If so, isn't that going to confuse the passengers, having the same route
pass through the same station twice on one trip ?

Maybe but Paddington is actually two tube stations and I doubt the confusion
will be any greater than it is now. And other than the anoraks who is
actually going to do a full circuit?

And anyway, isn't that just the circle line under a different name, with a
long
tail to it, which will still fall foul of all the conflicting movts which
bedog the circle line currently.

Yes but at least there will be the opportunity to regain times. I suspect
for similar reasons Orbirail will not feature a regular full circuit
service.