'Hammersmith via Shepherds Bush'

The A stock are getting new blinds......

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Even with just a few years left for them?

They were announcing "Hammersmith via Wood Lane and Shepherds Bush Market" at Edgware Road the other day.

They will when they get the bung!

don't the Districts show on the DMI's as via Victoria to distinguish them from the H&C's that go to Hammersmith via Kings Cross?

No, but the DMIs on the side alternate between the destination and "District line" while those inside scroll "District line train to xxx".



That's less of an issue because the District and Central use different platforms.

Oh, I see. Yes, I think those platform DMIs do say via Victoria.

In the days of CO stock they used to read HAMMERSMITH VIA PADDINGTON.

When an inner rail or Hammersmith train gets reformed into a District before getting to Egdware Rd WB, ie- at Kings Cross or somewhere and you put the blind up as a Wimbledon before getting to Edgware Road it really freaks people out. You'll get loads of questions from passengers and SA's alike who are convinced that such a thing is impossible.

Of course if you were a Hammersmith and get reformed, if you don't put it up as a Wimbledon you alienate all the people for stations to High Street on the Circle, and if you leave it as a Hammersmith you'll be giving false info and get grief off all the Hammersmith passengers at ERD. If you put it up as an Edgware Road you stitch up everyone!

I don't think there is a perfect solution, apart from writing the line name on the front - which i think they plan to do with S-Stock. But even then with weird reforms and trains coming out of Barking/Hammer as Circles and Aldgates it'll still throw people.

It's a bizarre thing on LUL but some people put too much faith in signage and others seem to totally ignore it. (someone standing by a huge "way out" sign asking you where the way out is). It is one of the better signed metro systems i've ever used though compared to others around the world.

More confusing was the Saturday services which used to run Wimbledon/PB to Liverpool street/Moorgate/Aldgate on Saturday afternoons. these finished in about 1972 IIRC, just after new vinyls had been fitted to all the stock, and new R stock blinds made with these destinations on!

No easy answer to this one, although I do tend to "guide" drivers of soon to be ex-Hammersmith trains to show Circle and ex-Circles to keep it as that until Edgware Road. We do try where possible to make the reform decision as early as possible so that people are not given a last-minute change - but as you know only too well, as far as our line goes, planning is easier said than done.

The SCC can also display District line destinations from Kings Cross onwards, which can really introduce confusion ;D

In my Underground Guide collection, I have yet to see these services advertised. So I guess that WTTs are the only proof of them operating.

In "theory" the software exists within the SCC to show many numerous TDs at any location under its control. Unfortunately, there is not the same technology on site, so although a TD is programmed in, it may not show correctly.

Years ago I tried a few experiments, and it was found that the "furthest west" TDs that could be shown were something like:

Liverpool Street - Farringdon: Parsons Green
Kings Cross - Baker Street: Putney Bridge (although Wimbledon did show for a couple of the tests.


I "think" the direct Moorgate-District services did come back for a short time in the early 1980s, though cannot be sure. I do know that for a few weekends in the mid-1990s, during engineering work, a 10-minute service operated between Moorgate and Wimbledon. Cannot actually remember what work was taking place to call for this (think it was Circle Line related).