Now that the extended Circle Line has bedded in, have signs at
Paddington main line station changed? In particular, is it made clear to
passengers that those wanting King's Cross or Liverpool Street should go
to platforms 15 & 16 while those wanting Victoria should head for the
Lawn entrance?

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On 24 Jan, 20:27, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
Now that the extended Circle Line has bedded in, have signs at
Paddington main line station changed? In particular, is it made clear to
passengers that those wanting King's Cross or Liverpool Street should go
to platforms 15 & 16 while those wanting Victoria should head for the
Lawn entrance?

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I am not sure it is always the best advice to go to platforms 15 &
16. If you are elderly or have heavy luggage you will have to go up
and down the stairs. If you go to the lawn entrance and take the
circle line terminating at Edgware Road then you will have a cross
platform change.

trainmanUK wrote on 24 January 2010 22:04:02 ...
On 24 Jan, 20:27, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
Now that the extended Circle Line has bedded in, have signs at
Paddington main line station changed? In particular, is it made clear to
passengers that those wanting King's Cross or Liverpool Street should go
to platforms 15 & 16 while those wanting Victoria should head for the
Lawn entrance?

I am not sure it is always the best advice to go to platforms 15 &
16. If you are elderly or have heavy luggage you will have to go up
and down the stairs. If you go to the lawn entrance and take the
circle line terminating at Edgware Road then you will have a cross
platform change.

That's true, if you can identify that the Edgware Road train arriving at
Paddington is a Circle and not a District. Do both the platform
indicators and the front of the train tell you that it's a Circle line
train?
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On 24 Jan, 22:26, "Richard J." wrote:
trainmanUK wrote on 24 January 2010 22:04:02 ...

On 24 Jan, 20:27, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
Now that the extended Circle Line has bedded in, have signs at
Paddington main line station changed? In particular, is it made clear to
passengers that those wanting King's Cross or Liverpool Street should go
to platforms 15 & 16 while those wanting Victoria should head for the
Lawn entrance?
I am not sure it is always the best advice to go to platforms 15 &
16. *If you are elderly or have heavy luggage you will have to go up
and down the stairs. *If you go to the lawn entrance and take the
circle line terminating at Edgware Road then you will have a cross
platform change.

That's true, if you can identify that the Edgware Road train arriving at
Paddington is a Circle and not a District. *Do both the platform
indicators and the front of the train tell you that it's a Circle line
train?
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Yes circle line have Circle Line to Edgware Road on the front.
Platform describer has same. District line just have Edgware Road on
the front of the train and Platform describer has District Line to
Edgware Road.

In article
,
(trainmanUK) wrote:

If you go to the lawn entrance and take the circle line terminating
at Edgware Road then you will have a cross platform change.

Can anyone confirm that this can really be relied upon?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 24 Jan, 23:01, trainmanUK wrote:
On 24 Jan, 22:26, "Richard J." wrote:





trainmanUK wrote on 24 January 2010 22:04:02 ....

On 24 Jan, 20:27, "Clive D. W. Feather" wrote:
Now that the extended Circle Line has bedded in, have signs at
Paddington main line station changed? In particular, is it made clear to
passengers that those wanting King's Cross or Liverpool Street should go
to platforms 15 & 16 while those wanting Victoria should head for the
Lawn entrance?
I am not sure it is always the best advice to go to platforms 15 &
16. *If you are elderly or have heavy luggage you will have to go up
and down the stairs. *If you go to the lawn entrance and take the
circle line terminating at Edgware Road then you will have a cross
platform change.

That's true, if you can identify that the Edgware Road train arriving at
Paddington is a Circle and not a District. *Do both the platform
indicators and the front of the train tell you that it's a Circle line
train?
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Yes circle line have Circle Line to Edgware Road on the front.
Platform describer has same. *District line just have Edgware Road on
the front of the train and Platform describer has District Line to
Edgware Road.

How many days has the service actually been attempted since it was
introduced, what with snow, signals, scaffolding and other problems?

wrote:
In article
,
(trainmanUK) wrote:

If you go to the lawn entrance and take the circle line terminating
at Edgware Road then you will have a cross platform change.

Can anyone confirm that this can really be relied upon?

A dangerous assumption, I'd have thought. A reversing Circle line, like a
reversing Wimbleware, could use either of the centre platforms to reverse,
one of which requires use of one of the footbridges.

Jack Taylor wrote:
wrote:
In article
,
(trainmanUK) wrote:

If you go to the lawn entrance and take the circle line terminating
at Edgware Road then you will have a cross platform change.

Can anyone confirm that this can really be relied upon?

A dangerous assumption, I'd have thought. A reversing Circle line,
like a reversing Wimbleware, could use either of the centre platforms
to reverse, one of which requires use of one of the footbridges.

They can use either, but since the change are definitely timetabled to use
the defined platforms, and the platform signage at Edgware Rd was changed to
reflect this. Presumably when they can't be platformed correctly (during
service perturbations) it is considered better to enter the station than sit
in the tunnel.

Paul S

Jack Taylor wrote on 25 January 2010 12:07:01 ...
wrote:
In article
,
(trainmanUK) wrote:

If you go to the lawn entrance and take the circle line terminating
at Edgware Road then you will have a cross platform change.
Can anyone confirm that this can really be relied upon?

A dangerous assumption, I'd have thought. A reversing Circle line, like a
reversing Wimbleware, could use either of the centre platforms to reverse,
one of which requires use of one of the footbridges.

But that's not the way it works now. Platform 2 is dedicated to the
Circle reversers and platform 3 to the Wimbleware reversers, and there
are permanent signs on the platforms that say so. Has anyone actually
seen a Circle line train reverse in platform 3 since the T-cup was
introduced?

--
Richard J.
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Richard J. wrote:

But that's not the way it works now. Platform 2 is dedicated to the
Circle reversers and platform 3 to the Wimbleware reversers, and there
are permanent signs on the platforms that say so.

Which is fine, as long as only one of each arrives at any time (as
timetabled). If there are delays and two Wimblewares or two Circles are
close behind each other then the timetabled platforming goes out of the
window.