Why, when the platforms are not in use and the area is closed off, are
the lights kept on in the escalator shafts leading from the bottom of
the main escalators at Charing Cross to the Jubilee line?

Music video shooting excepted.

Also, are these areas being maintained because there are plans to
re-use them, or is it just standard procedure not to let things rot
for safety reasons?

Matt Ashby wrote:

Why, when the platforms are not in use and the area is closed off, are
the lights kept on in the escalator shafts leading from the bottom of
the main escalators at Charing Cross to the Jubilee line?

Music video shooting excepted.

I noticed yesterday that Charing Cross is the setting for the video of
'Cry' by Alex Parks

(Matt Ashby) wrote in message . com...
Why, when the platforms are not in use and the area is closed off, are
the lights kept on in the escalator shafts leading from the bottom of
the main escalators at Charing Cross to the Jubilee line?

Music video shooting excepted.

Also, are these areas being maintained because there are plans to
re-use them, or is it just standard procedure not to let things rot
for safety reasons?

I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

Brad

The Charing Cross platforms on the Jubilee line are often used to turn
trains around because of problems. I also believe that trains are
booked to run in there as empties




On 22 Jan 2004 17:15:15 -0800, (TheOneKEA) wrote:

(Matt Ashby) wrote in message . com...
Why, when the platforms are not in use and the area is closed off, are
the lights kept on in the escalator shafts leading from the bottom of
the main escalators at Charing Cross to the Jubilee line?

Music video shooting excepted.

Also, are these areas being maintained because there are plans to
re-use them, or is it just standard procedure not to let things rot
for safety reasons?

I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

Brad


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(TheOneKEA) wrote in message . com...
I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

I thought if that happened the passengers were just turfed off at Green Park?

B2003

Stuart wrote in message ...
Matt Ashby wrote:

Why, when the platforms are not in use and the area is closed off, are
the lights kept on in the escalator shafts leading from the bottom of
the main escalators at Charing Cross to the Jubilee line?

Music video shooting excepted.

I noticed yesterday that Charing Cross is the setting for the video of
'Cry' by Alex Parks

Can you imagine how passengers further up the line felt when they heard
those creepy howls coming up the tunnel from a supposedly disused station??

B2003

(Boltar) wrote in message . com...
(TheOneKEA) wrote in message . com...
I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

I thought if that happened the passengers were just turfed off at Green Park?

They probably are, but when you have a Jubilee train full of
passengers between Green Park and Westminster and something happens on
the JLE, Charing Cross is the perfect place to deposit them.

When they drilled the new tunnels from Green Park to Westminster and
beyond, did they modify the track layout at Green Park so that trains
coming from Westminster can go to Charing Cross too?


B2003

Brad

On 22 Jan 2004 17:15:15 -0800, (TheOneKEA) wrote:
I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

Any confirmation that this has happened recently?

Sam
--
Sam Holloway, Cambridge

"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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(Boltar) wrote in message
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(TheOneKEA) wrote in message
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I have heard in many places that the Charing Cross Jubilee Line
platforms are kept in operating condition because they offer a perfect
spot to deposit passengers if there should be a problem on the Jubilee
Line. In fact, I have heard that they have been used at times when the
JLE had engineering issues that required some time to work out.

I thought if that happened the passengers were just turfed off at Green
Park?

They probably are, but when you have a Jubilee train full of
passengers between Green Park and Westminster and something happens on
the JLE, Charing Cross is the perfect place to deposit them.

When they drilled the new tunnels from Green Park to Westminster and
beyond, did they modify the track layout at Green Park so that trains
coming from Westminster can go to Charing Cross too?

I very much doubt it, as this would require another set of tunnel bores to
connect the new tunnel to the Charring Cross tunnels (sort of forming a
triangle like the one near Rickmansworth on the Met). I doubt it would have
been worth the cost.

Daniel.

B2003

Brad

"TheOneKEA" wrote in message
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(Boltar) wrote in message
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I thought if that happened the passengers were just turfed off at Green
Park?

They probably are, but when you have a Jubilee train full of
passengers between Green Park and Westminster and something happens on
the JLE, Charing Cross is the perfect place to deposit them.

ITYM between Bond Street and Green Park. Once you are past Green Park it's
too late! AFAIK, whenever there are problems, passengers are detrained at
Green Park and the empty stock is reversed on the ChX branch. I'm not aware
that any passenger carrying trains have been that way for a long time - in
any case I don't believe that ChX Jubilee line platforms have the required
paperwork any longer to allow them to be used. If a train went that way it
would have to return northbound to Green Park to detrain passengers.


When they drilled the new tunnels from Green Park to Westminster and
beyond, did they modify the track layout at Green Park so that trains
coming from Westminster can go to Charing Cross too?

No.