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The morning commute
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 01:57 pmThere is a certain perverse joy in coming to work on the Northern Line that I might even miss when we move to Ilford. Certainly, Northern Line ‘minor delays’ are not even remotely related to our Earth ‘minor delays’.
For the second day in succession there is trouble with the signalling between Stockwell and Morden, which is the far end of the line from us and well past the ‘Kennington Loop’, which effectively allows London Underground to turn trains around there without overly disrupting the flow of the rest of the line. Anyway, it should never be said that London Underground do not pass on the benefits of their disruption to their passengers1. This manifested itself in the form of a full platform at Totteridge and Whetstone, despite it being only the second station at the far end of the line from the disruption and the first train terminating at East Finchley, where the platform would already be beyond full. The second, and more useful train aimed at Morden via Bank was a full quarter of an hour behind.
Luckily, by changing one station early, Finchley Central, I was able to get on to a train down from Mill Hill East, which was empty. Even this was diverted, however and ended up swanning off down the Charing Cross branch instead of the Bank branch, much to the consternation of the 50% or so ofpassengers who piled off at Camden Town in a blind panic.
Yes indeed. I may well miss all this when we move.
1Or as I should call them in this modern consumer-based world, “customers” – a term that adequately suggests the sale of something and the paying of money, but which in no way suggests moving people from A to B.
For the second day in succession there is trouble with the signalling between Stockwell and Morden, which is the far end of the line from us and well past the ‘Kennington Loop’, which effectively allows London Underground to turn trains around there without overly disrupting the flow of the rest of the line. Anyway, it should never be said that London Underground do not pass on the benefits of their disruption to their passengers1. This manifested itself in the form of a full platform at Totteridge and Whetstone, despite it being only the second station at the far end of the line from the disruption and the first train terminating at East Finchley, where the platform would already be beyond full. The second, and more useful train aimed at Morden via Bank was a full quarter of an hour behind.
Luckily, by changing one station early, Finchley Central, I was able to get on to a train down from Mill Hill East, which was empty. Even this was diverted, however and ended up swanning off down the Charing Cross branch instead of the Bank branch, much to the consternation of the 50% or so of
Yes indeed. I may well miss all this when we move.
1Or as I should call them in this modern consumer-based world, “customers” – a term that adequately suggests the sale of something and the paying of money, but which in no way suggests moving people from A to B.