snowleopard
Member
I fully realise this is “anecdata” but for the second evening in a row I find myself in a Central London Northern line station seeing an unusually large gap in northbound trains.
Yesterday evening, I was at King’s Cross St Pancras (so Bank branch) at around 8.45pm with long delays (>7mins from memory) shown for trains northbound.
Tonight I was at Charing Cross, arriving on the northbound Northern Line platform at shortly before 9pm. A High Barnet bound train had just left and the next trains were shown as Edgeware in 9mins and High Barnet in 13mins. These are unusually big gaps in service, yet TfL did not record any delay on the line in its status report.
Were these just coincidental flukes, with perhaps a train taken out of service on each evening accounting for my bad luck, or are there any deeper reliability issues (Central line style) on the Northern line which are making themselves shown in a timetable thinning out post-evening peak?
Yesterday evening, I was at King’s Cross St Pancras (so Bank branch) at around 8.45pm with long delays (>7mins from memory) shown for trains northbound.
Tonight I was at Charing Cross, arriving on the northbound Northern Line platform at shortly before 9pm. A High Barnet bound train had just left and the next trains were shown as Edgeware in 9mins and High Barnet in 13mins. These are unusually big gaps in service, yet TfL did not record any delay on the line in its status report.
Were these just coincidental flukes, with perhaps a train taken out of service on each evening accounting for my bad luck, or are there any deeper reliability issues (Central line style) on the Northern line which are making themselves shown in a timetable thinning out post-evening peak?