C stock for dummies

Presumably it is considered unsafe to climb on the coupler to gain access - it's higher up than the photo would have you believe. The door is more likely open because the person who uncoupled the units would have crossed from one to the other to operate the coupler switch.

Really?? Say that at Finchley Road or Wembley Park and they'll all head straight for the Jubbly which has had outside doors for over a decade.

At Finchley road you can say "big and small", failing that - "accordion trains"!

Well, people can cope with similiar issues at Aldgate East (two different types at most times), High Street Ken, Liverpool Street and also Edgware Road before they Hammersmithed the Circle. Why should it be so hard at Earl's Court?

No - the whole point of S stock, in the case of S7's, is that they will be fully interchangeable on the Circle, H&C and District lines.

Earls Court is something of a pain because it is surround by a lot of hotels and thus has a very high proportion of foreigners passing though it - on top of that the pocket maps tend to confuse them into thinking that the Circle line also serves Earls Court which of course it doesn't.

The Hammersmith and City and Circle Lines are branded separately but are tied together operationally and use the same set of trains. Presumably they will also remain separately identified when operated by S7s.

This suggests that it would be possible to identify the Wimbledon-Edgware Road service differently at stations/on maps to the rest of the District Line and still operate it with District Line trains, drivers, managers, etc.
The change would obviously not be without cost,as all the following would need updating:

• maps
  
• in-car diagrams
  
• station signage
  
• automated audio announcements (on trains and on stations)
  
• website (including journey planner, contact forms, etc)
  
• Dot Matrix Indicators (I have no idea if this would just be changing what is displayed to the public when the system receives a given description from the signalling system or whether it would require more than this?)
  

There are probably things I've not thought about as well.

Then there would be design and promotional costs associated with the change.

However it won't happen.

Can I politely suggest that if you wish to continue down this road, you either start a new thread in the Railway Idea's and Proposals board or dig out the previous thread that we've already had on the subject..

Sorry for late comment on this - have been off line for a while.

The original post reminds me of a similar problem many many years ago at Gunnersbury on the Eastbound, in the days when the unpainted "R" stocks had just appeared. A passenger had asked which train to catch for Victoria and had been advised to take a "red" train, but not a "green" one (as the NLL trains then were). About twenty minutes later and after at least two DRs had called, the passenger was seen still to be on the platform, and on being asked why, replied that he had seen ony green and "silver" trains! (It transpired that the only two unpainted "R"s were following each other in service from Richmond that day. There's nothing new in this world!!!