On Oct 4, 2:53*pm, london_north wrote:
Wonder how many people would alight at Queens Park if LM stopped some
services there? *If I was headed for Oxford Circus I'd prefer to
change at Queens Park rather than Euston, and would be much better for
people headed for say the Paddington or Charing Cross areas.

Supposedly there isn't capacity to do this, due to the large number of
'extra' trains now running on the slow lines, even at weekends. The
mainline platforms at Queen's Park are used by a couple of early
morning / late evening trains though (this isn't advertised in the
timetable due to possible engineering work, but the stops are shown on
the Live Departure Boards). They are also occasionally used when the
DC lines have engineering work and all four mainline tracks are
available from Euston.

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:53:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:

Supposedly there isn't capacity to do this, due to the large number of
'extra' trains now running on the slow lines, even at weekends. The
mainline platforms at Queen's Park are used by a couple of early
morning / late evening trains though (this isn't advertised in the
timetable due to possible engineering work, but the stops are shown on
the Live Departure Boards).

I'm not sure why they bother with these "secret" stops there, based on
my experience of taking a late-night train out of Euston. The train
was advertised even on the departure screens as first stop Wembley
Central. It did in fact stop at Queens Park, but unsurprisingly no-one
got on or off.

On Oct 4, 8:41*pm, asdf wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:53:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:
Supposedly there isn't capacity to do this, due to the large number of
'extra' trains now running on the slow lines, even at weekends. The
mainline platforms at Queen's Park are used by a couple of early
morning / late evening trains though (this isn't advertised in the
timetable due to possible engineering work, but the stops are shown on
the Live Departure Boards).

I'm not sure why they bother with these "secret" stops there, based on
my experience of taking a late-night train out of Euston. The train
was advertised even on the departure screens as first stop Wembley
Central. It did in fact stop at Queens Park, but unsurprisingly no-one
got on or off.

Purely so that they don't have to run a replacement bus. Queens Park
does see use on the early morning trains.
I assume the railway staff (mainly LU) who use it have inside
information as to when the train won't be calling.