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Delays on Northern line

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No full Northern line 'until March'

By Ross Lydall

Evening Standard

29 October 2003

Passengers on the Northern line face five months of disruption following the Camden Town derailment, it emerged today.

Services will not be fully restored until March because the points thought to have been to blame for the crash on 19 October will not be brought back into use.

London Underground did not deny reports that Edgware and High Barnet trains would not be able to run down both the Bank and Charing Cross branches until next year.

As a result, all Edgware services will run via Bank after the end of the week, while High Barnet and Mill Hill East services will travel via Charing Cross. Services to all stations on the Edgware branch were restored today, but are running only via Charing Cross this week.

The High Barnet branch remains suspended between East Finchley and Euston, but LU hopes to restart services in a "short while".

Today's resumption of services on the Edgware branch will be at a reduced frequency, with the last train running through Camden Town at 9.15pm to allow engineering work to continue. Replacement buses will then operate between Camden and Golders Green.

Thousands of passengers will be inconvenienced by the delay to restoration of full services. They will be forced to change between branches at Camden Town, Euston or Kennington - leading to further overcrowding.

Mayor Ken Livingstone, who took control of the Tube in July, is expected to update passengers when he addresses today's meeting of the Transport for London board.

A statement from LU said that once services were restored to all stations - probably by the end of the week - trains would "cross" at Camden Town "until further notice".

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