 Escaped Circle Line train at Aldgate East
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:52:33 +0100, "Chris Read"
<chris117@> wrote:
>
>Walter Briscoe wrote:
>
>> At about 07.40 on Sunday morning 20/07/08, I saw a westbound train at
>> Aldgate East. The destination on the front was "CIRCLE LINE". There was no
>> mention of it on the platform train describer. The PA sounded something
>> akin to: "This is a Circle Line service via Liverpool Street".
>>
>> Where might it have been parked?
>> What wanderings do Circle Line services do?
>
>Probably entering service from Upney (Barking) sidings, where a number of
>C-stock trains are berthed nightly.
>
>I recall this service from my time living in Barking. It always caused a
>degree of confusion to the bleary-eyed, early on a Sunday. Not least
>because, with no H&C service east of Whitechapel on a Sunday, nobody at
>Barking expected to see a C-stock train in service.
>
>Plus, of course, the obvious question as to whether this 'Circle Line' train
>would become a clockwise or anti-clockwise service!
Surely it should announce as H&C to Edgware Road or District to
Gloucester Road (is that possible?), as appropriate, until reaching
Liverpool Street/Tower Hill? |