"Don Davis" wrote in message
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Do the platforms at Baker St. which are used by Met trains heading to/
from Aldgate ever get used for trains which terminate at Baker St.?
Are all the Met platforms at Baker St. used fairly intensively or is
there capacity for a train to be stabled out of use when defective or
as a stand-by?
Do trains stick to Aldgate or "non-Aldgate" services for most of the
day or do they interwork between the two?
What determines which diagrams will be allocated "A Stock" and which
"S Stock"?
Does the Chesham branch work better as a "through" service or should
it have been left as a shuttle?

When the Aldgate service was peak hours only in T stock days the through
platforms were certainly used for the off peak terrminators.The station
could not have coped otherwise.

Not just T stock days. At least into the 1970s the entire Met Main Line
service (Uxbridge, Watford and Amersham) terminated at Baker Street off-peak
and weekends, using all four main line platforms at Baker Street.

The decision has been taken that the Met stock will all be S8 when it's all
been delivered. As this is too long for the Chalfont bay it will no longer
be possible to run the Chesham service as a shuttle. If the Croxley Link
gets built there may be a case for operating say a Chesham to Watford
Junction service.

Peter