"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
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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.

I took a ride on this today and whilst it was great to use it the wider
experience suggests TfL needs to drastically overhaul its information
strategies.

Firstly most of the Met was down but rather than basing rail replacement
buses on the Met's own route they instead ran to connect to a variety of
other lines. However getting information about these buses at non-Met tube
stations was almost impossible.

welcome to the world of replacement buses.

With some national rail service you can't even get information on the buses
from the stations that they replace.

Some higher up contracts the buses to run and after that they are managed by
the bus company. The railway take no interest at all in the operation on
the day with their staff knowing nothing

tim