On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Jack Taylor wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On 29 Dec 2003, Thomas Crame wrote:

The service could have been disrupted, and the controller may have
decided to run one, either to get a train back to time or if Olympia
has had a long interval without a train. I've known Circles to be
reformed into Hammersmith's en route before now

I was on one when it happened once: it was a circle as far as Aldgate, and
then changed; i never thought i'd be leaving Aldgate on a H+C train!

A very common occurrence in recent years. I've also been on H&Cs that
became Circle services upon reaching Liverpool Street.

Now that makes sense, as does Lars's observation of them changing at
Edgware Road, as these are stations that are on both the circle and the
H+C. Changing at Aldgate just struck me as surreal - why not wait until
Liverpool Street? Of course, whether they change at Aldgate, Liverpool St,
Edgware Road or anywhere else is really irrelevant, as it only makes any
difference once you get to Paddington or whatever's after (or Liverpool
Street if you're going clockwise).

Still, they ought to be consistent, or else we'd end up with metropolitan
trains converting to H+C at Great Portland Street, over to circle at
Farringdon, and then back to metropolitan at Aldgate, just in time to
terminate. It'd be anarchy, anarchy i tell you!

tom

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