District Line - Western Area

District Line - Western Area
Description	The Western area of the London Underground District Line
Country	United Kingdom
Time period	2000s
Train Operating Company	London Underground
Simulation difficulty
Author	Keith Hazelton
Website	District Line - Western Area
Route map Edgware Road Victoria Bayswater Sloane Square Notting Hill Gate South Kensington High Street Kensington Gloucester Road Triangle Sidings Earl's Court Kensington (Olympia) West Brompton West Kensington Fulham Broadway Barons Court Parsons Green Hammersmith Parsons Green North & South Sidings Ravenscourt Park Putney Bridge Stamford Brook East Putney Turnham Green Southfields North London Line Wimbledon Park Chiswick Park Wimbledon Acton Town Gunnersbury Ealing Common Depot Kew Gardens Ealing Common Richmond Piccadilly Line Ealing Broadway

The District Line is one of the oldest parts of the London Underground, and the line with the most stations. This simulation covers the western area, from Bayswater and Sloane Square through Earl's Court to Kensington (Olympia), Wimbledon, Richmond and Ealing Broadway.

This is a complicated layout that is just about manageable by one operator. You may find that for the first 30 minutes or so you can run the simulation at x2 speed, but once all the regular services are up and running real time speed is advisable.

Timetable

London Underground doesn't use traditional headcodes. As such, each train has been allocated a headcode in the form AA00 - the first letter signifies the origin, the second letter the destination, and the numbers increment as with normal services. The letter allocations are marked within the simulation.

District Line - Western Area Services
Train Operating Company	Origin	Destination	Frequency (tph)
Circle Line	Victoria	Edgware Road	7.5
District Line	Wimbledon		7.5
		Victoria	7.5
	Ealing Broadway		7.5
	Richmond		7.5
	Kensington (Olympia)	High Street Kensington	4

Notes

This layout uses the ‘gillsans’ font face, which is the closest freeware font to the Johnston font used by London Underground. If you don’t have gillsans installed it is included in the download. Just right click on it and chose install before running the program.