On 7 Apr, 06:59, Walter Briscoe wrote:
Since then, I have been thinking about the teacup proposals, whose main
rationale seems to be that there is nowhere to store Circle line trains.
Aldgate seems a good candidate in both directions. Gloucester Road
clockwise and the line between High Street Kensington and Gloucester
Road anti-clockwise seem OK.

The whole reason the Circle Line exists is to provide a fast
convenient service for passengers passing through exactly those
locations. If you timetable 5 minutes plus of recovery time (which is
what the teacup plan will allow at Edgware Road), you might as well
not bother running it.

(on a related topic, I've decided they should install a drawbridge at
the east end of Edgware Road so that there's always level access to
the next onward train. Trains rarely leave the centre tracks in that
direction)

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