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On 20 Mar, 17:25, Mizter T wrote:
On 20 Mar, 17:09, MIG wrote:

However there's no 'Wimbleware' service for the whole long weekend, as
there's no (District/Circle) trains running between Edgware Road and
Earls Court/Gloucester Rd. Perhaps this does point to a reduced
frequency on the District from Wimbledon this weekend then.

Thanks guys for the information.
Today Good Friday, I have been riding the line in both directions,
there seem to be plenty of trains possibly 4 an hour in each
direction. Just get a train from platform 6 at Clapham Junction that
is going next stop Wimbledeon. At Wimbledeon get a Waterloo train with
Clapham Juntion as the first stop.

I had a return journey Wimbledon - CJ too. There are definitely 6 SWT ph
most hours, 2 tph each to/from Woking, Shepperton, and Basingstoke/Alton
(splitting). There also seemed to be alternating LU trains so up to12 tph
in each direction?

Slight glitch just before 5 when Wimbledon platform 5 was blocked by a 66
headed engineers train heading towards CJ through the blocked section, but
otherwise I thought everything was working pretty smoothly, considering the
flat junctions on and off the 'District line' section, and the single lead
connection with the Windsor lines. Had I relied upon the BBC's warnings
there should have been total chaos in the area, in fact there were probably
more services running than on many previous weekends when engineering work
has closed the main lines through CJ.

At Wimbledon platform 6 was being used as a terminating platform for
Chessington and Guildford stoppers, and platform 7 for down through trains.

I noticed, (for the first time), that there are differential speed limits on
the East Putney line, 30 mph over 45 mph for LU, so that possibly explains
how the interworking of stoppers and non-stop is organised. Oddly, the
platform announcements on East Putney's up platform were alternately
displaying a 'stand clear the next train is non-stop' message, despite them
turning off just before the station!

Paul S.