Stopping at Neasden and punctuality figures

I don't think they're meant to do it, it's just as a favour to their colleagues. I've seen it done at Rickmansworth a few times too, the train stops a few train lengths out of the platform on the southbound and lets a driver get off at the car park!

No drivers are not supposed to do it, and it does slow the journey down. Having said that, if someone did it for me as a favour I wouldn't be complaining!! ;D

I'm sure back in the day there was a staff train to Uxbridge. In the 40s it was run by 1913-21 saloon Circle stock.

Thanks for the responses. The last time I stopped at Neasden was on a northbound Amersham train that was first stop Harrow.

Thanks Stig for the link. Interesting that they use 15 minutes delay as their base point. Personally I'm not happy if my met line rolls in 10 mins late. Still I can't say much as the train company I work for use T-15 as our main performance figure. Do they display these performance at stations? I don't recall seeing anything at my local station Croxley.

Fully agree with Met Control. Back in the days of yore when I was a Controller, the Met Line management often had "purges" on drivers who stopped at Neasden when they shouldn't have (there were, however, a few dedicated crew relief stops at Neasden).

Then comes the two way process - drivers refused to stop when it was desirous to do so. These "purges" were soon dropped!

Before I was a Controller, I covered the Running SM (Station Master - "Managers" hadn't been invented then! ;D) at Neasden from time to time, and often the Wembley Park northbound pick-ups were very tight, especially if the Bakerloo was running late or had cancellations (as it often did in the early-1970s). A call was made to the Neasden South signalman to hold the next train for the crew relief to take place in the NB platform. And, as Met Control says, the only people that would notice were those on the train.

On one occasion, my call to the signalman was met with "the train's coming down the hill now". But because the crew relief was "urgent" (a motorman had to be relieved for an urgent domestic problem and had to go home straight away) he was told to return the signal to danger, and did so. The approaching train was 'tripped' on the starter and stopped north of the station. The relieving motorman ran down the track to relieve the driver (who stayed on the train to Wembley, because that's where he needed to go).

Bet we couldn't get away with that now - lighting, walking routes, and so on ....... But then, rightly or wrongly (and I'm not going down that avenue) we got the job done with the minimum of delay.

Its farking annoying, and i now refuse to stop my train. THEY CAN USE THE JUB INSTEAD.