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Our thanks go to Chris Cook for the following.
As of Sunday 13 December 2009, trrains on the Circle Line will no longer go round and round in a circle. They are going to do a set pattern of services, which involves starting and finishing at Hammersmith. The Hammersmith & City Line is remaining unchanged; in other words the new service is not going to be an amalgamation of the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines and they will continue to operate independently from each other.
Circle Line trains will start at Hammersmith, run eastbound to Edgware Road and will then carry on eastbound and do one clockwise revolution of the Circle Line i.e. via Baker Street, Kings Cross St Pancras, Liverpool Street, Tower Hill, Embankment, Victoria and High Street Kensington. Once back at Edgware Road, they will reverse direction and do one revolution of the Circle Line anticlockwise i.e. westbound via High Street Kensington, Victoria, Embankment, Tower Hill, Liverpool Street, Kings Cross St Pancras and Baker Street. When they arrive back at Edgware Road, they will then continue on westbound back to Hammersmith and then the circuit of routes will recommence.
This means, for example that if you want to travel through Edgware Road i.e. from Paddington to Baker Street, you will have to change trains at Edgware Road. If you were making this short journey, you'd be well advised to use either the Bakerloo or the Hammersmith & City Lines instead. If using the latter, it won't matter if you take a Circle Line train stopping at that platform (platforms 15 and 16 at Paddington), because it will be continuing on round to Baker Street anyway, as it will have just started the pattern described above. If you take an east bound Circle Line train from the Circle Line platforms at Paddington, this will be about to finish its clockwise revolution (as described above) and will return back through Paddington anticlockwise once it's arrived at the next stop i.e. Edgware Road.
© 2005 Terry Robinson