Randomness Guide to London - Differences between Version 6 and Version 5 of Category Kingston Loop Line
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| Railway line in South-West London consisting of a loop with two tails. The western tail leaves the loop between [[Teddington Station|Teddington]] and [[Strawberry Hill Station|Strawberry Hill]] to terminate at Shepperton via [[Hampton Station|Hampton]], and the eastern tail leaves the loop at [[Clapham Junction Station|Clapham Junction]] to terminate at [[Waterloo Station|Waterloo]]. The main body of the loop encloses [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon Common]], and has a diameter of about 7km in the north-south direction and about 10km in the east-west direction. The north side of the loop between [[Barnes Station|Barnes]] and [[Twickenham Station|Twickenham]] is also the south side of the [[Category Hounslow Loop Line|Hounslow Loop Line]], and the main line down to Reading. |
Railway line in South-West London consisting of a loop with two tails. The western tail leaves the loop between [[Teddington Station|Teddington]] and [[Strawberry Hill Station|Strawberry Hill]] to terminate at Shepperton via [[Hampton Station|Hampton]], and the eastern tail leaves the loop at [[Clapham Junction Station|Clapham Junction]] to terminate at [[Waterloo Station|Waterloo]]. The main body of the loop encloses [[Richmond Park]] and [[Wimbledon Common]], and has a diameter of about 7km in the north-south direction and about 10km in the east-west direction. |
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Railway line in South-West London consisting of a loop with two tails. The western tail leaves the loop between Teddington and Strawberry Hill to terminate at Shepperton via Hampton, and the eastern tail leaves the loop at Clapham Junction to terminate at Waterloo. The main body of the loop encloses Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common, and has a diameter of about 7km in the north-south direction and about 10km in the east-west direction.
Most services on the line start and finish at Waterloo, running in a one-tailed loop, while a smaller proportion of services follow the western tail off to Shepperton. (I think it's only ever clockwise trains that go down the Shepperton branch.)
Since trains run in both directions around the loop, this means that some Waterloo trains will be a lot faster than others; for example, if travelling from Kingston to Waterloo, the trains via Wimbledon will get you there quicker than the trains via Richmond.
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