Mizter T wrote:
On 02/04/2015 13:23, Recliner wrote:

For anyone who would like to ride the Watford North curve on a normal
service train, TfL has an Easter present for you.

Most of the Met will be closed for track work over the four day
weekend, but TfL says a "special Metropolitan line train service
operates between Northwood and Chesham/Amersham via Watford".

There will be replacement bus services covering the closed parts of
the line not covered by other LU lines.


Regarding the seemingly hard to financially justify (and increasingly
expensive) Croxley Link, one is again minded to think of the more
adventurous possibilities of (Chiltern) services from Aylesbury to
Watford Jn via the new route.

Yes, that's certainly been suggested. A more likely possibility, but very
hard for TfL to justify financially, would be a 2tph Amersham to Watford
Junction shuttle. That would replace the services diverted to Chesham, and
let Amersham pax transfer to Chesham services to London, as well as going
to Watford.

But as both Amersham and Watford are well outside London, it's hard to see
why TfL and the London mayor would want to subsidise such services. Would
Bucks and Herts councils want to jointly subsidise such a service? Somehow,
I can't see it.