At about 07.40 on Sunday morning 20/07/08, I saw a westbound train at
Aldgate East. The destination on the front was "CIRCLE LINE". There was
no mention of it on the platform train describer. The PA sounded
something akin to: "This is a Circle Line service via Liverpool Street".

Where might it have been parked?
What wanderings do Circle Line services do?

I have occasionally been on a Circle or H&C service which has suddenly
transformed itself into the other sort of service but have not
previously seen this sort of presentation.

<http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_SOI_REQUEST?language=en&type=
stop&id=1000004> implies the Circle Line serves Aldgate East. Similar
pages suggest the Circle goes as far as Barking. !!

OTOH, it is not reported to go to Royal Oak - on the way to the
Hammersmith sidings - or to Earls Court on the way to Wimbledon or
Kensington Olympia.

Walter Briscoe wrote:

Probably entering service from Upney (Barking) sidings, where a number of
C-stock trains are berthed nightly.

I recall this service from my time living in Barking. It always caused a
degree of confusion to the bleary-eyed, early on a Sunday. Not least
because, with no H&C service east of Whitechapel on a Sunday, nobody at
Barking expected to see a C-stock train in service.

Plus, of course, the obvious question as to whether this 'Circle Line' train
would become a clockwise or anti-clockwise service!

Chris

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:52:33 +0100, "Chris Read"
btinternet.com> wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Then people going to Notting Hill Gate would get off at Mile End
unneccessarily...

John Rowland wrote:

They'd get there considerably quicker if they did.

Colin McKenzie

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:55 +0100, Walter Briscoe wrote:

It is not unusual for a train to be taken from Circle Line service and out
to Aldgate East or even Whitechapel and then sent on its way as if it had
gone through Aldgate - the effect is to turn the train.

The C stocks can serve virtually all of the District Line - not just
Wimbleware - but if you saw a Circle at Aldgate East, it was probably
being turned.

Phil Reynolds wrote:

On Jul 21, 6:59 pm, "Stephen O'Connell" fk.u.com> wrote:

In article news.demon.co.uk>,
phil-news@tinsleyviaduct.com (Phil Reynolds) wrote:

They only have the Wimbleware part of the District on their line
diagrams.

On Jul 21, 8:24 pm, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

They used to oddly have Olympia, even though they didn't go there as
far as I know.