On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Mizter T wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Mizter T wrote:

On 12 Dec, 18:23, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, John B wrote:
On 12 Dec, 12:42, Tom Anderson wrote:

This map has the W&C and GN&C in solid orange:

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?

It still is, isn't it? I have a friend who lived in Stepney a few years
ago, and getting home from hers was a nightmare in the evenings for
exactly that reason.

No. It's Whitechapel-only on late evenings (last train ex-Barking is
the 2051) and Sundays, but runs to Barking for the rest of the day Mon-
Sat.

Ah, so it's still not all day every day to Barking. More than just in the
peaks, granted, but it's still an annoying pattern. Some people still want
to travel into town after nine!

District to Aldgate, exit and walk to Aldgate East for the Circle or Met
lines would be one way to deal with it - is Aldgate and Aldgate East an
outerchange I wonder, coz it should be if it ain't though I bet it
already is.

I used to go via Tower Hill, which was probably not very clever. Or get
the bus - once one actually came along, it was a single seat all the way
home on the lovely 254.

I was going to suggest a spot of bus hopping, but I suspect that once
you'd got as far as Clapton station on the 106 it just becomes easier to
walk the last stretch back to Upper Clapton (presuming that's where you
were at the time!).

No, i actually lived just behind the station.

Thinking about it, walking Aldgate East to Liverpool Street would probably
have been the best bet.

Well, if you were going home by train I dare say that going from Bethnal
Green (overground) station might have been a decent option - all the
Clapton-bound trains normally call there.

Yes, that would have been quite sensible. I never did it, though - i think
i was just mentally wedded to the idea of Liverpool Street.

tom

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