East London line intervals

I can remember off peak in the 1980 ‘s New Cross service was ever 15 minutes, New Cross Gate ever 15 minutes. Surrey Docks to Whitechapel was every 7.5 minutes.
Whitechapel signal box had push buttons that controlled Whitechapel platforms 5 & 6 also Shoreditch

Yes the East London Line control room was in New Cross Depot .All money spent for a short time when the line was a stand alone Business Unit before LU gave up the line, all that money spent on new signalling systems then have it replaced by a Network Rail system.

Yes, I remember that and using it, too, to New Cross Gate. From memory, though, I used it in 1974/5 when Man Utd were in the 2nd tier & played Millwall at The Den, so that may have been a Saturday special adapted from the usual peak-hours Mon-Fri service.

By 1988, when Millwall finally reached the top flight, I was married to Mrs tbf & so had better things to do on Saturdays.

I think the Sunday service prior to about 1980 was more comprehensive than Saturday, because the latter is the Jewish Sabbath, and there was still a significant Yiddish population in that area, especially around Shoreditch.

The Sunday service to Shoreditch was, I understood, to serve the Middlesex Street Sunday market (Petticoat Lane)

In the mid '70's LTE published a series of booklets detailing a brief history of the various underground lines,written by Charles E.Lee for the princely sum of £:50p each!
The one titled: "The East London Line and the Thames Tunnel", details its history from Brunel through to 1975, although briefly, including the fact that the large Yiddish population around Whitechapel was recognised, and special posters and leaflets were published in Yiddish in 1901 detailing traffic to the Crystal palace. The District Line followed suit detailing trips to Kew Gardens.
Interestingly these brief histories are no longer detailed on the LT Museum web page,maybe they are still on sale in the shop(?) although some of the line histories are shown on Amazon

Thanks all - so every 6-7.5mins seems a good average for what the service would have been - roughly 8-10tph. That sounds like it should be about right. Much appreciated!

Enjoying the additional anecdotes of the ELL too - it's a line that's dropped a little into obscurity since closure (notwithstanding the modern Overground routes of course). I definitely went to Shoreditch just before closure but have very few memories of the line; it was whilst I was away from London, so I really do enjoy these insights!