"Boltar" wrote in message
om...
"Robin Mayes" wrote in message
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Tell us what you mean by "just a signal gone wrong" and perhaps you'll
be
told more...

That was the official LU excu^H^H reason. Given that I'm not clairvoyant
I can't tell you anymore.

LUL are not brilliant at giving out lots of information..


Plus it would have been nice if LU had listened to what people were
saying
about using Charing X as a backup terminus instead of just closing the
jubilee platforms and walling up the escalators for no good reason.

Money?

How much money would it have cost to kept the station mothballed? A bit of
maintenance now and then and some cleaning? Not a lot. Instead they
decided
to spend loads of cash walling up the escalators and ripping all the
fittings
down (or so I've been told, obviously I haven't seen it myself though I
have
seen the wall). And its not like it was another Ongar , it was a
connection to
a major london railway terminus.


The station itself is closed, but trains still run into CharingX, they use
it as a Turn around. Most of the station is still intact inside, its just
all blocked up for safety reasons


Still , if the powers that be there had brains they wouldn't have been
working
for LU in the first place I guess...

Oh change the record, please! Perhaps the people who had brains were
working
for that wonderful private company Westinghouse Signals, or then again,
obviously not!

What have westinghouse got to do with whether LU closed Charing X? Do try
and keep up.

Westinghouse Rail systems have nothing to do with it, they just provide the
Signalling system


B2003