On Apr 4, 9:00*am, "Peter Masson" wrote:
"Charles Ellson" wrote



The Chiltern services are not really suitable for the short-distance
journeys that could be expected in the peaks if they stopped at West
Hampstead. It could be different outwith the peaks and/or at weekends.
Another snag might also lie with what space might or might not be
available for the platforms to be reinstated.

There have never been platforms serving the Great Central (now Chiltern)
tracks at any station south of Harrow-on-the-Hill,

As was the agreement between the boards of the two railways when the
MS&L Ry London Extension was constructed.

so nothing to
'reinstate'. Did the Met station at West Hampstead have four platforms
during the period 1913 (when it was quadrupled) and 1939 (when the Bakerloo
took over the central pair of tracks)?

Lords, Saint Johns Wood, and Finchley Road were of course double
track. I do not know if the formation widened to four tracks at, or
before, West Hampstead. I do recall seeing a photograph of a very bad
crash at West Hampstead Met. Station. The platform, in the
photograph, appears to be an island. Whether it was a single island,
or, one of a pair, I do not know.