Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

--
Fig

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

"Fig" wrote in message news:op.t5564htmm4iaeb@dell...
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

--
Fig

What sort of time are you talking about?

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:33:31 -0000, wrote:


"Fig" wrote in message news:op.t5564htmm4iaeb@dell...
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met
from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill
and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

What sort of time are you talking about?

Departing Ruislip at about 1735ish.
Monday was fast HotH to Finchley Road.
Wednesday was "Fast Aldgate with an additional stop at Wembely Park" (for
the footy)



--
Fig

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On Feb 7, 7:58 pm, Fig wrote:
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

--
Fig

It may have been running late so was run fast to save make up some
minutes.

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

"chunky munky" wrote in message
...
On Feb 7, 7:58 pm, Fig wrote:
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met
from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

--
Fig

It may have been running late so was run fast to save make up some
minutes.

There used to be one that left Uxbridge "about" 5ish - maybe its the same
one.

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On Feb 8, 7:41*am, chunky munky wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:58 pm, Fig wrote:

This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met from
Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between Harrow-on-the-hill and
Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

--
Fig

It may have been running late so was run fast to save make up some
minutes.

Or simply scheduled that way to get it to where it's needed, ie in
town to haul peak passengers out.
Tim

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

Fig wrote:
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met
from Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between
Harrow-on-the-hill and Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have the
details?

Train 423 departs UXB 1731 runs fast through Wobbly park 1755 arrives at
Aldgate at 1828 if you're lucky.

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:01:09 -0000, www.waspies.net
wrote:

Fig wrote:
This week I've twice been suprised to find myself on a southbound Met
from Uxbridge in the evening peak that ran fast between
Harrow-on-the-hill and Finchley Road on it's way to Aldgate.
Is this a permanent change to the timetable? If so, does anyone have
the details?

Train 423 departs UXB 1731 runs fast through Wobbly park 1755 arrives at
Aldgate at 1828 if you're lucky.

That's the fella! Thank you.
I take it that that's the only one in the timetable then? Shame. I'm
surprised I've never stumbled upon it before in all my years of commuting
out of Uxbridge, then twice in a week!

--
Fig

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:00:04 -0000, Fig wrote:


Train 423 departs UXB 1731 runs fast through Wobbly park 1755 arrives at
Aldgate at 1828 if you're lucky.

That's the fella! Thank you.
I take it that that's the only one in the timetable then? Shame. I'm
surprised I've never stumbled upon it before in all my years of commuting
out of Uxbridge, then twice in a week!

There used to be plenty of peak hour Uxbridge trains fast from Finchley
Road to Rayners Lane in 16 minutes.

Similarly Amershams fast from Finchley Road to Moor Park. (and Watfords
fast from Finchley Road to North Harrow)

This was when the "A" stock was, like me, in its prime, and capable of
doing 60mph+ on the non stop sections.

The 1145 Saturday Liverpool Street to Amersham was a favourite -
Finchley Road dep. 1206, next stop Moor Park arr. 1226





--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

Fast Uxbridge Mets
 

On 10 Feb, 11:06, Bill Hayles wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:00:04 -0000, Fig wrote:
Train 423 departs UXB 1731 runs fast through Wobbly park 1755 arrives at
Aldgate at 1828 if you're lucky.

That's the fella! Thank you.
I take it that that's the only one in the timetable then? Shame. I'm
surprised I've never stumbled upon it before in all my years of commuting
out of Uxbridge, then twice in a week!

There used to be plenty of peak hour Uxbridge trains fast from Finchley
Road to Rayners Lane in 16 minutes.

Similarly Amershams fast from Finchley Road to Moor Park. (and Watfords
fast from Finchley Road to North Harrow)

This was when the "A" stock was, like me, in its prime, and capable of
doing 60mph+ on the non stop sections.

The 1145 Saturday Liverpool Street to Amersham was a favourite -
Finchley Road dep. 1206, next stop Moor Park arr. 1226

--
Bill Hayles


Interesting stuff. Harrow on the Hill would seem to be regarded as a
more important hub nowadays - perhaps this shows the growing
importance of local traffic, rather than just whooshing people into
and out of central London. Then again, perhaps it just makes life
simpler for passengers - and as you say A-stock ain't as fast as it
used to be so maybe the current service pattern is also influenced by
what is operationally convenient.

Nonetheless I'm surprised to see that there were Watford fasts with
the first stop at North Harrow, missing a stop at Harrow on the Hill.

I'm not a Metroland man myself, and so I needed to remind myself of
the current Met service pattern - there isn't any obvious place to
look on the TfL website for this, so I used the site's search facility
(using the term "Metropolitan line") and found the line diagram was
the third in the results list, though it is far from obvious that it
is actually a map (the result was merely labelled as a PDF named
"Metropolitan line"):
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/metropolitan.pdf

Perhaps this line diagram should be made easier to find and be
included on the main TfL maps page.