Taken 02/02/18: Hopefully I have identified the platforms in these two correctly and, if so. according to Wikipedia:
"In 1949, the Metropolitan line-operated Inner Circle route was given its own identity on the tube map as the Circle line. In June 1957, the reversing bay track was taken out of use and the track bed was later filled to connect the two island platforms. The eastbound MR platform (Number 1) and westbound DR platform (Number 4) were taken out of use in January 1966 and March 1969 respectively. The tracks for these platforms were also removed and platform 4 was subsequently demolished in the early 1970s to allow escalators to be provided to the Piccadilly line."
taken 18/12/13; The other Edgware Road station lies to the south-east of the Bakerloo line station at the junction of Chapel and Cabbell Streets and opened as part of the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon in 1863. Nowadays the station is served by the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines and the best description I can find on the net is as follows:
citytransport.info/Circle.htm
"The usual service pattern is: platform 1 for outer rail services to Kings Cross, Liverpool Street and beyond, platform 2 for circle line to High Street Kensington and Victoria, platform 3 for district line trains to Earls Court and Wimbledon, and platform 4 (inner rail) for Shepherds Bush Market and Hammersmith. This may vary in times of disruption - trains can go east from any of platforms 1 2 and 3 and to any of the westbound destinations from platforms 2 3 or 4."
To which Wikipedia adds:
"Since December 2009, Circle line trains call at the station twice on each journey: initially as a through service from Hammersmith towards Liverpool Street, then as the terminus for that same service completing the loop via Victoria (or the same journey in reverse). There are no longer through trains here between the northern part of the Circle line and its western part."
Tags: Edgware Road Station