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[email protected] · June 25th 09, 10:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Jun 25, 10:49*am, wrote:

In article ,
(Scott) wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:20:51 -0700 (PDT), MIG
wrote:

On 25 June, 10:06, Scott wrote:

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Thanks, I thought it might be something like that. *But is this a
permanent change or just an arrangement during engineering works?
If the Circle Line is no longer to be a circle it would need to
be renamed causing massive confusion and departing from about a
century of history.

Will be permanent, but seems to be a trial this time.

Thanks. *I take it Boris will organise a competition to choose a new
name then.

Apparently the name will remain. It's just that some passengers will
be mightily confused and fed up about it.

And others might actually consider using the Circle line if it starts
being reliable!

Can't say I've found that enough of an issue to complain myself.

(I take it you are perhaps one of the some who will be fed up about
these Circle line changes, given the concomitant knock-on changes to
Wimbleware services, i.e. the reduction of Wimbleware trains starting
from Edgware Road? I'll admit I'm one of those who essentially avoids
the Circle line at the moment - there always seems to be a better way!)

The Wimbleware/Circle combination gives a one-change route between Putney
and King's Cross, avoiding humping child's buggy or heavy luggage up and
down footbridge stairs any more than necessary (can't be avoided at East
Putney). It's pretty reliable for same platform interchange. Can't do that
under new arrangements, and that was true before they started cutting
Wimbledon trains back from Edgware Road to High St to add extra changes
too.

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Colin Rosenstiel