GCR/LNER steam south of Harrow

The electric steam change over was moved to Rickmansworth in 1925 so there were not too many Met steam services after this time.

I would not have thought that any LNER trains would have stopped at Wembley/Neasden as there were no platforms there.

I think there was a wide variety of motive power including Robinson A5s and Thompson L1s. In the early days C13s were used and latterly on the chesham shuttle. I've also seen mention of N5s used on the mainline. There were V1/2s from time to time. The later years if metropolitan steam - H.C.Casserley is a good book.

A German V1 or V2 rocket landed on the approach tracks to Marylebone and probably would have closed the station so a temporary terminus makes sense.

Chesham trains did go south, to change the rolling stock set for example, and there could have been direct services. Locos could have been changed to go off to Neasden (south) depot.

It would be useful to get some details if poss.

I've skimmed through The Capital Transport Series (all the following by Mike Horne) volumes on The Bakerloo, Met & Jubilee Lines & the nearest incident was a viaduct partially demolished near Kilburn, where they ran trains as far as they safely could to both ends, detrained passengers onto buses & re-entrained them on the other side of the gap. It only took a fortnight to reinstate the lines and the Tube service, but many months to fully strengthen the viaduct.

I can find no reference to the GCR/LNER service disruption causing use of Met/Bakerloo platforms, and that sort of eventuality is the sort of thing Mike Horne is good at picking up on, especially given the background to some of both the Met, & The MSLR before it became the GCR & immediately it did, vide the Wembley Tower, a bright idea of the guy who was chairmen of both railways & the SER, Sir Edward Watkin.

One point to make clear, the GCR/LNER tracks were not connected to the Met/Bakerloo tracks at Neasden, or indeed anywhere else south of Harrow. The only connection was at Harrow, from there to Marylebone the GCR/LNER was independent. For a GC/LNER loco to get to Neasden and then changeover/drop the stock off would mean it returning to Harrow to regain home rails, it could not have reached the GCR/LNER Neasden shed any other way. That shed was way off across the other side of both mainlines from Neasden Met depot, in fact it almost aligned with Neasden station.

Referring to the Chesham stock changeover as far as I know from 1925 the changeover was that the stock returned to Neasden Saturday night changing from steam to electric at Rickmansworth and the next weeks set ran from Neasden early Sunday morning, electric hauled to Ricky changing over there to steam. We lived overlooking the Met just north of Pinner Station when I wasa kid, if I was up early I would see this electric hauled little three coach train hesding north, it was years before I found out where it was going!

Reference to this and a photo of works at Neasden are on page 69 of "London Main line war damage" by BWL Brooksbank(Capital Transport)