I noticed that Crossrail work has now started being blamed for weekend
Underground closures: "Between Edgware Road and Barking there is no
service due to Thameslink and Crossrail work.".

Perhaps this has been said before, but it's the first time I've noticed
it in the weekly TfL closures email. But I guess we'll have to get used
to seeing it many, many times more in the coming years.

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:41 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

I noticed that Crossrail work has now started being blamed for weekend
Underground closures: "Between Edgware Road and Barking there is no
service due to Thameslink and Crossrail work.".

Perhaps this has been said before, but it's the first time I've noticed
it in the weekly TfL closures email. But I guess we'll have to get used
to seeing it many, many times more in the coming years.


.... or until it is cancelled. I rate its chances as 50/50.

On Nov 19, 7:59*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:41 -0000, "Recliner"

wrote:
I noticed that Crossrail work has now started being blamed for weekend
Underground closures: "Between Edgware Road and Barking there is no
service due to Thameslink and Crossrail work.".
Perhaps this has been said before, but it's the first time I've noticed
it in the weekly TfL closures email. But I guess we'll have to get used
to seeing it many, many times more in the coming years.

I spotted that on the travel info newsletter I see at work. I think the
work is somewhere on the Barbican - Liv St section but not 100% certain
about that.

Ah, so that's the source of this particular misery - the London Loop
newsletter has the closures, but not the reasons behind them.

Combined with the Central Line closure west of Marble Arch, it's going
to make it a bit tricky to go west.
Journey Planner is offering me a somewhat optimistic 47 minute trip
from Wood Lane to Wood Green (changing at Edgware Road, Kings X,
Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane for a bus). I'll believe that when I
see it.

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:41 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

I noticed that Crossrail work has now started being blamed for
weekend Underground closures: "Between Edgware Road and Barking
there is no service due to Thameslink and Crossrail work.".

Perhaps this has been said before, but it's the first time I've
noticed it in the weekly TfL closures email. But I guess we'll have
to get used to seeing it many, many times more in the coming years.

I spotted that on the travel info newsletter I see at work. I think
the work is somewhere on the Barbican - Liv St section but not 100%
certain about that.

I'd assumed it was at Farringdon.

On Nov 20, 11:29*am, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:23 -0800 (PST), martin

wrote:
Combined with the Central Line closure west of Marble Arch, it's going
to make it a bit tricky to go west.
Journey Planner is offering me a somewhat optimistic 47 minute trip
from Wood Lane to Wood Green (changing at Edgware Road, Kings X,
Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane for a bus). I'll believe that when I
see it.

Good grief - why not just take the Picc to Hammersmith and pick up a 72
or a 220? *At least it is only one change although I recognise Wood
Green stn is closed at the weekend so you have to get to Turnpike Lane
somehow.

Wood Lane itself is being dug up (again!), so the H&C might be a
better move than the bus - but I am tempted to try Journey Planner's
suggestion out of sheer bloody mindedness.

On Nov 20, 11:29*am, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:23 -0800 (PST), martin

wrote:
Combined with the Central Line closure west of Marble Arch, it's going
to make it a bit tricky to go west.
Journey Planner is offering me a somewhat optimistic 47 minute trip
from Wood Lane to Wood Green (changing at Edgware Road, Kings X,
Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane for a bus). I'll believe that when I
see it.

Good grief - why not just take the Picc to Hammersmith and pick up a 72
or a 220? *At least it is only one change although I recognise Wood
Green stn is closed at the weekend so you have to get to Turnpike Lane
somehow.

Crikey. I just took Journey Planner's suggested route, and managed it
in under an hour.