On 12 Dec, 10:32, John B wrote:

On 11 Dec, 17:15, Tom Anderson wrote:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/1986.html

Wow - was the H&C (or Met, in those days) past Whitechapel really once
peak-hours only? And did Met trains from the main line really only run
through to Aldgate in the peaks?

You're making me feel very, very old. But yes, back then the "big
Met" terminated at Baker Street, and the "little Met" at Whitechapel,
off-peak.

The current service pattern only came in after the "little Met" became
a line in its own right. (There were some other weird experiments
with the sub-surface lines around the same time, such as sending the
Olympia trains all the way to Edgware Road. But this was the only one
that really stuck.)