Post by stuartroy on May 16, 2017 17:45:27 GMT
This is more of a challenge than a quiz question - because I don't know the answer - but hopefully it will prove entertaining.
A few months ago we had a thread about "Going North", based on the fact that one can travel from Euston on the northbound Victoria to King's Cross, and then change to a northbound Northern service to end up back at Euston.
On another thread there has been a discussion about the platforms at Chancery Lane (where the eastbound lies above the westbound) and St Paul's (where it's west-over-east). So one could travel from Chancery Lane to St Paul's, go up a level, back to Chancery Lane, and then have to go up a level again to get back to the start point. My challenge question is, are there any other journeys one can make (a) on a single line such as the Central in the above example or (b) on a combination of lines?
I can see one example on the Bakerloo for a circular journey between Regent's Park and Waterloo, which is a "going down" change at each end, although I think the platforms at both these stations are offset rather than directly above one another vertically. I don't know those stations well enough to know whether there are simple extra flights of stairs or escalators between levels, as there are at St Paul's and Chancery Lane, or whether the arrangements are more complex, but I'm looking at this from the point of view of platform levels rather than any convoluted passageway/stairway arrangements. There's a two-line example between Embankment and Waterloo using the Northern and Bakerloo, which can be run in either "going up" or "going down" mode.
I'll throw it open at this stage! I wonder if anyone can find a three-line circuular route?
A few months ago we had a thread about "Going North", based on the fact that one can travel from Euston on the northbound Victoria to King's Cross, and then change to a northbound Northern service to end up back at Euston.
On another thread there has been a discussion about the platforms at Chancery Lane (where the eastbound lies above the westbound) and St Paul's (where it's west-over-east). So one could travel from Chancery Lane to St Paul's, go up a level, back to Chancery Lane, and then have to go up a level again to get back to the start point. My challenge question is, are there any other journeys one can make (a) on a single line such as the Central in the above example or (b) on a combination of lines?
I can see one example on the Bakerloo for a circular journey between Regent's Park and Waterloo, which is a "going down" change at each end, although I think the platforms at both these stations are offset rather than directly above one another vertically. I don't know those stations well enough to know whether there are simple extra flights of stairs or escalators between levels, as there are at St Paul's and Chancery Lane, or whether the arrangements are more complex, but I'm looking at this from the point of view of platform levels rather than any convoluted passageway/stairway arrangements. There's a two-line example between Embankment and Waterloo using the Northern and Bakerloo, which can be run in either "going up" or "going down" mode.
I'll throw it open at this stage! I wonder if anyone can find a three-line circuular route?
