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Old December 12th 07, 01:08 PM posted to uk.railway, uk.transport, uk.transport.london
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On 12 Dec, 10:59, wrote:
On 12 Dec, 10:32, John B wrote:

On 11 Dec, 17:15, Tom Anderson wrote:


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/1986.html


Wow - was the H&C (or Met, in those days) past Whitechapel really once
peak-hours only? And did Met trains from the main line really only run
through to Aldgate in the peaks?


You're making me feel very, very old. But yes, back then the "big
Met" terminated at Baker Street, and the "little Met" at Whitechapel,
off-peak.

The current service pattern only came in after the "little Met" became
a line in its own right. (There were some other weird experiments
with the sub-surface lines around the same time, such as sending the
Olympia trains all the way to Edgware Road. But this was the only one
that really stuck.)



I note that there have been some depot changes in relatively recent
years, like the Barking sidings now being mainly for C stock and C
stock no longer stabling at Neasden (the missing bit of the jigsaw
being how is the displaced D stock accommodated).

Do these coincide with the all-day Barking service? Or is it more to
do with changes at Neasden with the Jubilee extension? Or was that
the same time anyway?