April 7th 09, 11:38 AM
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Is the teacup necessary?
John Rowland wrote:
Mr Thant wrote:
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)
Would one of these fit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1NwXQaVAKA
More to the point, would one of these fit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mndmOpmYc&NR=1
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