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That grassy strip between the platforms is there because the platforms were relocated to where the through lines were, it was a kind of willful sabotage.

Although the line is double track, most of the stations were four track, allowing express trains to pass through - Wembley Stadium still has the platforms in the original location, with a large gap in the middle where the through lines were.
Well, at least it has some trains Monday-Friday which is more than can be said for Birkbeck (5th on list) come Monday and the new Southern emergency timetable.
A ridiculous number of Crossrail trains from the east will be scheduled to turn round at Paddington, doing nothing for mobility in West London, a waste of expensive tunnel infrastructure. An extension to High Wycombe would allow Chiltern to do what it really wants to do, become a long distance operator.
Good to have you back D.G, but I don't understand how Sudbury and Harrow Road can have 'fifteen times fewer passengers' than Sudbury, Suffolk.
One times fewer would mean zero passengers, does fifteen times mean zero point with fifteen zeros after it?
Sudbury (Suffolk) could have 'fifteen times as many' as S & HR, or even 'fifteen times more' (i.e. sixteen times as many).
I assume that S & HR has one fifteenth the number of passengers at Sudbury (Suffolk)?
According to your photos, the wooden fence is on platform 2...
Note to self: Try not to sound authoritative. (fixed, thanks)
Max - It's certainly crazy that so many westbound trains are planned to terminate at Paddington. Whilst it would be possible (with some infrastructure upgrades) to route High Wycombe trains onto Crossrail, this would surely be via Greenford. This would still leave all the Chiltern longer distance services running via Sudbury and Harrow Road. Would there now be enough space in the timetable to provide a useable service to suburban stations on that line from Marylebone?

Anybody know what became of ideas to put Tring services onto Crossrail? Is it all tied up with HS2 and the redevelopment of Euston?

Loving 'unencumbered by significant capital spend'.
@ Max Roberts

Running Crossrail to Wycombe would require electrification to Wycombe. And it is unlikely that the capacity released on the Sudbury route could be used for significant improvement to the inner suburban service on the Marylebone route, which the Crossrail route would bypass, as Lorenzo observes. Unless it takes a huge detour via the Dudding Hill line.

The stations on this stretch are all close to Tube stations with service levels - and penetration of central London- that Chiltern will never achieve. I suspect that, with the exception of Wembley Stadium's crowdbusting potential, there is no real reason for keeping them open except that the legal cost of closing is greater than the cost of keeping them open.

Back when the plan was to close Marylebone by taking up the spare capacity at Baker Street and paddington (!), Not only the stations, bit the whole line from neasden to ruislip, was to have closed.
This will be 'silly question of the day/week/month/year"...does someone have to pop round and open/close these (very quiet/little used)stations? That alone must work out expensive?
@e

What's to open and close? Even if there are physical gates, the entrances at such small halts are usually open all hours.

And as it's in Oyster land I doubt they even need to check the PTT machine to see if there's any money in it more than once a fortnight.
The only stopping trains are in the rush hour (ish) both ways when presumably there are more trains using the 2 tracks than at off peak times, so why cannot trains stop off peak?
For No.8 you mean Drayton Green not Drayton Park - I don't think the latter would get into the least used 10!
I done well today.
By the way whats the least used in relation to the number of trains serving the station?, South Greenford has a train every 30 minutes each way Mon-Sat approx. 06:00-22:00, Sudbury & Harrow Road has eight trains a day Mon-Fri.
I used to live about two minutes walk from Sudbury Hill Harrow. At the time, my work was located very near Traf Square - so I found the Chiltern trains very useful for commuting to and from work (via the Bakerloo line). The only problem was that because of the irregular timings, I had to be extremely strict at not attending meetings that risked missing my train home.
You always done good DG. In my first government job one of the publications wot I wrote was being torn to bits by the higher-ups and I was looking increasingly disconsolate. At this, the senior politician in the room, whose name was going on the report, turned round and stated loudly enough for all to hear, "don't worry Mr C, any fool can edit. You've done the vast majority of the hard work already". I've never forgotten that and so always approach my critiques with care. :-)
@ Timbo

Fair point. Though make 'good' location for rough sleepers perhaps?
@E
You'd have to be pretty desperate. Looking at the NR website for that station, the seating in the shelter appear to be in two pairs rather than one long bench, leaving the floor as the only option.
Transport operators put a lot of effort into deterring rough sleepers. Waiting for a train to London at a similarly desolate station at Hayle in Cornwall recently, we discovered that the only seating was outside the shelter, so you could either stand in the shelter or sit in the rain. Given the other uses to which the shelter had apparently been put, we chose to sit in the rain.










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