On 2014-10-06 18:25:11 +0000, Paul Corfield said:

And yet if you look at patronage on the DC line into Watford Junction
it's not exactly overburdened with passengers north of Harrow nor does
it carry a lot of local traffic.

The DC line would I think be used a lot more if the service pattern was
such that people at the northern end of it didn't get such a uselessly
slow journey. One option might be to run the LO service as semifast
south of Harrow just ahead of a Bakerloo train (maybe Willesden and
Queens Park only?) and stopping north thereof, perhaps - interchange
wouldn't be so bad as it'd always be same-platform. That might even
take some of the overcrowding off the WCML itself.

Neil
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