Post by Chris W on Jan 20, 2010 20:40:01 GMT
I had to head over to Bond Street, from Liverpool Street, late this afternoon for a work meeting - enroute whilst stationary in Oxford Circus, passengers were told to leave the station due to an emergency and ouR train headed west.
I arrived back at Bond Street just after 6pm and discovered that Oxford Circus was still closed, with trains not stopping. The queue to get through the ticket/oyster gates started at the entrance of the station on the lower ground floor of the West One Shopping Centre. It took 10 minutes to get through the barriers with a lot of shoving, pushing and mumbling from those present.
Once down on the Central Line eastbound platform we were told over the platform PA that trains were not stopping due to congestion in the ticket hall... a train entered and passed through the station not depositing any passengers, but just as equally not allowing even more to get on due to Bond Street being so busy... making the station busier... the next train didn't stop because the station was busier... making Bond street even more busier... I think you can see where I'm going here
I cannot comment on what as happening on other lines, however the Central Line SA announced at one point that it was management making this decision.... I took that to mean he wasn't too happy with the call to apparently intentionally make the station even busier than it could have been...
I arrived back at Bond Street just after 6pm and discovered that Oxford Circus was still closed, with trains not stopping. The queue to get through the ticket/oyster gates started at the entrance of the station on the lower ground floor of the West One Shopping Centre. It took 10 minutes to get through the barriers with a lot of shoving, pushing and mumbling from those present.
Once down on the Central Line eastbound platform we were told over the platform PA that trains were not stopping due to congestion in the ticket hall... a train entered and passed through the station not depositing any passengers, but just as equally not allowing even more to get on due to Bond Street being so busy... making the station busier... the next train didn't stop because the station was busier... making Bond street even more busier... I think you can see where I'm going here
I cannot comment on what as happening on other lines, however the Central Line SA announced at one point that it was management making this decision.... I took that to mean he wasn't too happy with the call to apparently intentionally make the station even busier than it could have been...
