Closure L'pool St - Leytonstone today

I can confirm it is to do with works at Stratford.

And I'm sure the reply was something along the lines of the level of service that could offered would be unable to safely meet demand.

I can't say I know that station nor whether it could cope, but it does seem quite plausible.

EDIT: Another train of thought (pardon the poor pun) - again I don't know the area, but if trains are reversing there, is a shunt signal involved?

There is no replacement bus service at Liverpool Street, although there is the main line service to Stratford, where the replacement bus runs from.

I raise the issue of Bethnal Green because it is the harderst to get to in terms of connections. By getting off at Liverpool Street, a tran service is available to Mile End (Hammersmith and City line) and Stratford (main line), where a dedicated bus runs to Leyton and Leytonstone. The poor Bethnal Green passengers can either get a very infrequent main line train from Liverpool Street, or the number 8 bus!

They could easily change the service pattern - train run every 4 minutes to Liverpool Street when the line is closed, with one every 12 running empty to Bethnal Green. It woud be possible to change this to every other train running to Bethnal Green in service, thus giving an 8 minute service. This would easily be able to cope with the Sunday usage.

In response to Colin's point about a shunt, trains reversing at Bethnal Green run into the eastbound platform, then westbound via the trailing crossover. All can be done in passenger service.

In terms of not running trains through an area where platform work is being done, it all depends on the type of work & how close to the platform edge the work is.

There are prescribed limits in LU's rule book - certain activities cannot be carried out during traffic hours unless a possession is in place to afford proper protection.

But Bethnal Green main line statoin is a long way from the tube station - indeed Cambridge Heath is almost as near - has no service to Mile End or Stratford, and does not open on Sundays until 0921.

I have the Bethnal Green crossover in my rare track log; I got it during a closure back in 2005 (per THIS THREAD where I asked about the throwing distance of the points).

At the time, demand for trains to Bethnal Green seemed to be very very low, with few people on the trains. Most people alighted at Liverpool Street. I suspect that in this instance the TTN authors felt that there was no need to run in passenger service to Bethnal Green.

What's ∇? We're don't all have access to your book of codes.

I'm guessing "stepping back", but it would be polite to actually write that.