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Post by taylor on Jan 12, 2024 12:55:49 GMT
From TfL Weekend travel advice:
"Use Tube services or local bus routes. A special train service will run between Watford Junction and Stratford via Willesden Junction."
Apart from the services to/from platform 2 at Willesden Junction (from Woodgrange Park and at start of service) can anyone remember when the link between Willesden Suburban and Kensal Green Junctions via the New Lines was saw regular service trains from north of Willesden Junction?
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Post by selbiehouse on Jan 12, 2024 18:04:16 GMT
From TfL Weekend travel advice: "Use Tube services or local bus routes. A special train service will run between Watford Junction and Stratford via Willesden Junction." Apart from the services to/from platform 2 at Willesden Junction (from Woodgrange Park and at start of service) can anyone remember when the link between Willesden Suburban and Kensal Green Junctions via the New Lines was saw regular service trains from north of Willesden Junction? Going back to the early 1980s there used to be one morning peak working from Watford Junction to Broad Street via Hampstead Heath instead of the usual Primrose Hill routeing. |
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Post by taylor on Jan 13, 2024 11:05:35 GMT
Thanks! Looking at the OpenTrainTimes data, the diversion has not been well blessed this morning (13 Jan.) Much of the service from Watford cancelled until about 10:00, some up journeys starting from Harrow & Wealdstone, being held en route at Gospel Oak for over 15 minutes and in the down direction being held for a similar amount at Kensal Rise and then being terminated at Willesden Jn. LL platform 2. Perhaps it will bed in as the day progresses! Where operators get their scheduled relief likely to be challenging.
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Post by selbiehouse on Jan 13, 2024 17:34:03 GMT
Yes, i went to Bushey Station with a view of photographing the 09.20 to Stratford only to find that it was cancelled!
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Post by spsmiler on Jan 13, 2024 20:04:39 GMT
Going back to the early 1980s there used to be one morning peak working from Watford Junction to Broad Street via Hampstead Heath instead of the usual Primrose Hill routeing. This route via Hampstead Heath was headcode B3, I believe. The advantage of this specific train was that it filled a gap in the normally every 20 minute service between Richmond and Broad Street. Therefore morning commuters heading for the City had three trains each 10 minutes apart. At one time trains via Hampstead Heath were more frequent and some Broad Street - Croxley Green through trains might have even run via Hampstead Heath. ------------------------------ As for the service this morning, eek and yikes. Fortunately (for me) I did not try to travel on any of these trains. |
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Post by taylor on Jan 14, 2024 13:50:45 GMT
Yes, i went to Bushey Station with a view of photographing the 09.20 to Stratford only to find that it was cancelled! Te diversion is running much better today, Sunday 14 Jan. However, the level of information provided to passengers sitting in trains terminating in platform 2 at Willesden Jn. yesterday was far from ideal. Neither advising station personnel nor announcements around 15:00 and well-filled trains arriving from Kensal Green with mainly quite bewildered travellers, a few of whom I really had to convince that the service was planned (very careful there) to return to Stratford. Even when the operator clearly announced that, saying the train was going via the “North London Line (NLL)” nice touch) there were several perplexed passengers as the unit left platform 2 in the opposite direction to the one in which it had arrived. Also, even though at that point all LO trains from the NLL were being terminated at Willesden Jn. LL, because of a signal failure north of Harrow (hence your cancellation), all the intermediate station Dot Matrix Indicators (DMI) before I alighted at Finchley Road and Frognal were showing Watford Jn. not Willesden Jn. It’s not unusual to make special announcements on the DMIs, so yesterday’s lack of information is inexplicable to me. On a personal note, on 14 Nov.87, when the power bogie of the Southern Electric Group DEMU spread the gauge under the A404 in Harlesden on its way between Willesden Suburban and Kensal Green Junctions, we had to climb down to the tracks and make our way on foot back to Willesden Junction HL. www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/871114se.htmhttps://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/871114se.htmFinally that bit covered at a decent time of day! |
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Post by spsmiler on Jan 14, 2024 14:07:39 GMT
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