On 27 Jan, 14:19, Adrian wrote:

Mizter T gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

One other (slightly cheeky) possibility, should you wish to retain the
option of travelling on the Met line, is that you could cycle your
regular bike into Marylebone then leave it and lock it up there in the
safe cycle storage place, then either travel onward to C&L by Chiltern
train or alternatively by the Met line from Baker Street station which
is just around the corner (I'm not getting muddled this time, it really
is!). That would mean you wouldn't have to wait around in order to catch
a half-hourly train.

TBH, once you're at M'bone, it's rarely worth walking to Baker St
(5-10min) then catching a c.15min interval Met which'll take 15-20min
longer to get out to civilisation beyond the M25. You might as well hang
about, and get a comfy, fast train. [...]

I think you possibly overstate things a little with regards to the
time difference. Marylebone to C&L is timetabled at 31 minutes (35 on
the return but that's because of added recovery time), whilst Baker
Street to C&L on the Met is timetabled at 40-41 mins. I agree that
Chiltern trains certainly have their attractions (though there's a
vocal fanbase of the old A-stock trains on the Met!). One particular
attraction for the OP is that he's allowed to take his regular bike on-
board.


[...] It's different when you're travelling
with rush-hour, since the Chilterns can remind you of photos of Japanese
rush-hour trains... (although, tbf, Chiltern haven't started to employ
people to push passengers through the closing doors. Yet.)

But surely not for contra-peak journeys - the OP will be travelling
*away* from Marylebone in the morning, and towards it in the evening.


However one thing I'm not clear on is where the cycle storage place is
at Marylebone (I've a vague picture in my head of it but that's not
helpful!). It's possible it is beyond the gateline

It definitely is - where platform 4 used to be, before they moved it half
way to Harrow.


Thanks for the confirmation of that.