Westbound into service at Russel Square

Trains can carry passengers through the crossover at Kings X, so I'm surprised that the train was completely empty. Maybe it was reversed empty at Kings X for crowd control reasons? I travelled through the crossover a few years back, when the first SB train of the morning (on Sundays?) reversed in the NB platform and returned SB.

There's a similar situation on the District at Earls Court. Trains can depart westbound platform 3 in service Eastbound but in practice trains reversing there are almost always tipped out because it would cause chaos to suddenly announce that the next city bound train is from platform 3! And of course you'd get people who wanted to go west getting on it...

Following two signal failures , one passenger ill on a train and

one report of smoke in the tunnel it was a miracle there

was any service on the Picc at all . Almost certainly that

train at Russell Square was reversed east to west at Kings

Cross .It is invariably quicker to reverse a train there empty

unless plenty of station staff are available to send punters

across to the eastbound . 99 times out of a hundred it isn 't

worth it .

Just to add to this thread...coming up later this year, the Piccadilly Line platforms at Kings Cross will be closed on various weekends, for CTRL works. (all other lines will stop as normal)

Its almost a straightforward non stopping of all Picc trains, except for those two Kings Cross reversers early on a Sunday morning as mentioned above. As a result, these trains will terminate at Russell Square on the EB, and run empty to Kings Cross, reverse, and return into service at Russell Square WB. Dont know what the policy will be on train descriptions.

Never heard of it when new! KINGS CROSS was there obviously.

However they cannot display "Special" its either blank (IE not set up) or "Not in Service"

And High Street Ken.

I presume it's because they're just off the Picc line and trains may be routed there in exceptional circumstances?

Well, I wouldn't say High Street Kensington is 'just' off the Piccadilly track wise. I know Piccadilly drivers sign Ealing Broadway and the 'local' lines from Baron's Court to Acton Town, but do they still sign West Kensington? Is there anywhere else Piccadilly drivers sign?