WTT 70 & Hainault to Woodford Shuttle

A shuttle would be shown how every other shuttle has been shown: a separate solid line for the core service, with a dotted line branching off at each end to denote occasional through services.

Some say the map is more cluttered, personally I think it's a reflection on how much London has evolved and grown in that time.

Most of Overground or TfL Rail isn't new though. It's the existing lines that were crammed into a Tube map.

But if they'd been branded as "London Underground" rather than "London Overground" there would be far fewer complaints.
[edit: Sorry, superteacher, you pressed post only a few seconds before I did]

Folks, has anyone got the text from Central Line News they could post?

No, about the likely content of WTT70 and confining the loop services to a shuttle - as mentioned by Aslefshrugged at the top of this thread...

What would be the likely platform arrangement at Hainhault?

I'm assuming P3 would serve the shuttle because P1 & 2 have the scissors crossover for services via Newbury Park.

Looking at possible crossovers, would the shuttle run bidirectionally on what is the Northbound line between Grange Hill and Hainault? Is there a crossover or possible path through the depot I've not spotted?

I'm afraid I've not been around long enough to know what they did the last time things ran this way.  

Yeah, P2 makes sense now I look at it, actually. P1 & 3 still benefit from the scissors crossover, and as you rightly say, the Hainault shuttle will have a much easier time reversing.

Assuming by the 'old' platform you mean P1? Yes, it seems to me from eyeballing the layout that could work too, as a train from P1 seems like it could be turned using a depot siding and then run south from P2. The shuttle could arrive and depart from P3 with moves that don't conflict that.

I would guess the other end of the shuttle is much more challenging to operate, as looking at Woodford's track layout there doesn't seem to be any option other than tipping out the shuttle on P2 which blocks southbound trains from Epping, although perhaps there's no need to fully tip out, because you're not going via a siding.

In my haste it seems I transposed P1 and P3 in my mind

Yes, I meant shuttle in P1.

TfL's journey planner says Grange Hill and Chigwell are both already slightly slower around the loop the 'long' way, but as you say, people like seats. However it'll be slower still with the need to change from the shuttle at Hainault. Changing at Woodford may then be significantly preferable to persuade a lot of people to go that way instead.

When it was a 60TS shuttle it always used Plt 2.

There are lifts if stairs are a problem.

Yes, but I think before that the "side" platform was more common. But that may have been something to do with the automatic train experiment.
And since those days, usage of the Central Line has increased greatly so platform availability at Hainault must be an issue (as it is at Epping).
More generally, the number of pax using the Loop is so small compared with those on the main line that I guess TFL won't over-obsess about inconvenience for them.

Perhaps getting a bit off-topic, of course that is correct. But capacity issues are now getting serious, as Epping, approx 20 miles from London, attracts huge numbers of commuters from all over Essex and Herts, and even Suffolk and Cambs. Reason:if you (say) live at Hatfield Broad Oak or Dunmow, and don't mind a drive; fare from Epping z6 to eg Holborn z1, £5.10 (£3.10 before 0630, after 0930)  fare from Bps Stortford, £17.50. That's why it has the biggest car park on the nework.