Wembley Park delays

From past experience Chiltern Railways are rather better at handling these situations than TFL. Would suggest using the Wembley Stadium to Marylebone link instead of the Met. And v/v, of course.

Personally I would not call the stroll from Marylebone to Baker Street significant. It takes about 5 or so minutes to the side entrance on Baker Street itself. Of course if travelling with luggage or unable to walk far it is a different matter, but if able bodies and unencumbered it is quick and on the level until you head into Baker Street station itself.

You could take the Bakerloo from Marylebone one stop to Baker Street, and then its a cross platform (nearly) interchange to the Jubilee, I believe. But if no luggage it is a fairly short, and rather pleasant walk to Baker Street.

Do LU run special services for events such as Wembley? I'd imagine brining a few extra trains in empty at that hour wouldn't cause havoc on the system.

Chiltern Railways do too. "There is a music event at Wembley Stadium – Coldplay. An amended timetable will operate during the late afternoon and evening. In particular, the following changes will be made to late afternoon/evening peak services to allow us to provide extra capacity to Wembley as efficiently as possible, whilst ensuring minimal disruption to our regular passengers:"

I think you were being very optimistic trying to catch the 0016 train. Bearing in mind that there were approx 70,000 people at the concert. When I have traveled from Wembley after an event I have been both surprised and impressed by the way the crowds have been dispersed.

As you say walking from Marylebone to Baker Street is about the most you can manage and that is a similar distance to the walk from the stadium to Wembley Park I cannot imagine you walking that is less then 20 mins without other people getting in the way, From experience you cannot get out of the Stadium in less the 15 mins. That would take you to 2305 before you joint the others wanting a train.

So assuming 2305 at Wembley, five mins to wait for train, not allowing any time for crowds, fifteen mins journey to Baker St. ten mins change time, 7 mins journey to Kings Cross, (which was busy that night), puts you on the platform at Kings Cross 23.42. 34 Minutes to get from kings cross platforms to ST@. for a person who is not a fast walker does not leave a big cushion on a normal day and I have not made any allowances for not being space available on the first train to arrive at Wembley.

Station staff at Wembley cannot do much to improve throughput of passengers, you can be sure that if you were held in the ticket hall that would be because there was no room on the platforms, it must have been station staff who were holding you. There were certainly plenty of staff on the platforms, they control flow of trains through the station ensuring they leave loaded and do not delay services behind. Drivers are told by station staff when to depart.

I suspect that your minimum time for that journey would be one hour so to attempt it after a concert with an extra 30 mins is optimistic.

Journey planner shows 36 mins from the Bobby Moore statue to Kings cross underground. I think that backs up what I say.

I cannot comment on your inward journey though.

Well the fact it was semi-fast implies there was a "special service" because with the current timetable, you only get fast/ semi-fast trains during peak times on weekdays. Sometimes they are also run to recover from delays.