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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2011 21:00:04 GMT
Hi all,
When riding on the Northern line I have always seen Bank branch trains terminating at Morden and City branch trains terminating at Kennington.
is it possible to get a train from High Barnet to Morden direct or is the city branch always terminated at Kennington?
Thanks
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Post by causton on Apr 8, 2011 21:03:11 GMT
At both peak times trains run to/from Morden from both branches in both directions AFAIK  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2011 21:11:35 GMT
Yes, in the peak they do run to Morden. At Kennington there is a connection letting the trains go round the loop or down to Morden from the CHX platforms, and I do believe also the same for the Bank platforms.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2011 21:22:39 GMT
From the Bank platform (SB) you can only go to the siding(the centre reversal siding between the running rail, situated south of the platform) or Morden. ex-Charing Cross trains can access all three.
The same applies going north, Bank trains cannot come from the loop, but CHX trains can come from anywhere.
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Post by ruislip on Apr 9, 2011 20:34:48 GMT
When riding on the Northern line I have always seen Bank branch trains terminating at Morden and City branch trains terminating at Kennington. Didn't you mean to say West End instead of City? The City branch runs through Bank. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 8:03:54 GMT
Indeed I did ruislip thank you for the correction! Being a northerner i'm not used to the proper terms  On a tangent slightly. When a train comes into somewhere like Edgeware how does the turn around go? Does the terminating driver just take his key out and set lights to tail lights and the starting driver do the opposite in the other end? How long does the procedure take? Thank you for the information! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 8:29:48 GMT
That's stepping back you describe.
Driver pulls in, shuts down, goes to other end, opens up, pretty much it.
The method you've described is used on the Waterloo & City to speed up departures in the peak.
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Post by superteacher on Apr 11, 2011 9:37:28 GMT
That's stepping back you describe. Driver pulls in, shuts down, goes to other end, opens up, pretty much it. The method you've described is used on the Waterloo & City to speed up departures in the peak. I don't think there is stepping back on the Northern line in the current timetable, although there used to be at Morden. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2011 12:19:52 GMT
Aaaand it appears I've made my usual mistake of being too vague.
The process that Luke described in #5 is stepping back, not the usual reversing method.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 12:02:06 GMT
When riding on the Northern line I have always seen Bank branch trains terminating at Morden and City branch trains terminating at Kennington. Didn't you mean to say West End instead of City? The City branch runs through Bank. Does it? I recall CSLR posting a longish post a while back about the use of the phrase "City Branch" to describe the Northern Line's central London route through Bank, and how it could easily be reused to refer to the Charing Cross route, which passes through the City of Westminster. CSLR suggested that this was why the ambiguity was removed. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2011 12:16:14 GMT
Didn't you mean to say West End instead of City? The City branch runs through Bank. Does it? I recall CSLR posting a longish post a while back about the use of the phrase "City Branch" to describe the Northern Line's central London route through Bank, and how it could easily be reused to refer to the Charing Cross route, which passes through the City of Westminster. CSLR suggested that this was why the ambiguity was removed. Buuuut the Bank branch passes through the City of London. I refer to them as Bank branch and Charing Cross branch. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Apr 13, 2011 19:07:30 GMT
I remember it by looking at the WTT - bold for Bank, although I think of it as the City branch because it wasn't the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead.
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Post by rincew1nd on Apr 13, 2011 21:13:05 GMT
Sonia refers to the platforms at Euston as being the Charing Cross Branch and the Bank Branch. She also refers to the same branches at Camden Town, though I've yet to ascertain which is which as they seem to keep changing  |
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Post by londonboy on Apr 13, 2011 23:07:34 GMT
Both Southboumd platforms at Camden Town are called Via Bank and Via Charing Cross
Platform 2 at Euston is Via Charing Cross and Platform 6 is Via Bank :-)
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Post by Ben on Apr 14, 2011 16:38:03 GMT
Que someone posting a pic of an interwar sign frrom the northern saying 'west end' or 'city'...
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