Jubilee slooooooooooooooooow at Baker Street

I think there is a significant gradient on the south at that point. Also, you have the link to the Bakerloo too!

There's a sequence of speed-controlled signals on the approach to Baker Street s/b. I can't recall the exact setup, but I think you have 4 signals, the first of which has a 30mph inductor, then two which have timing sections, and the final one is approach cleared.

The reason for this layout is to do with the fast run from St. John's Wood combined with a downhill gradient - it maintains the integrity of the overlaps, but I think the reason why this was first done was to reduce the amount of dust in the platform area at Baker Street, caused by heavy braking in the days before trains had rheostatic brakes.

Needless to say, driving styles have changed over time, and most drivers will have their speed down to well below 30mph as a contingency, hence the crawl.

There was a similar setup at Highgate s/b which has recently been removed. There are also two speed-controlled signals between Highgate and Archway s/b, but I think these are more to do with the sharp curve approaching Archway.

But isn't that south of the station in that direction?

Wow! Thank you to everyone for the information!

I'm not very knowledgeable in this area, but an I right in my assumption that new signalling won't fix this?

Cool! Good news then ;D
I hope I will still live in London by the time this will be done

It's mainly used for getting engineers trains to & from the Bakerloo,also if any Bakerloo trains need to get to & from Acton Works.BTW the link the opposite way from Bakerloo to Jubilee is to the north of Baker St.

It's easier to blame the Tube
Actually I never blame the Tube without a good reason. It is just that when I'm late, I always notice every single delay much more.

EDIT: Corrected worst mistake ever!

A lot of people complain about the tube, and then they complain about the engineering work that is needed so that they will have a better service.

The trouble is, and this is something discussed numerous times before, is just what the definition of "better" is. The District Line central area engineering work has been going on for literally years but there is no obvious improvment in ride or journey time. Nor are there any extra reversing points to allow better service recovery. Ditto signal failures are no less common. As has also been said before, by the time it is all 'finished' (sic) no doubt it'll be time to start all over again, this time to accomodate the S Stock, and then next for the fabled SSL resignalling scheme before finally it's the turn of the track again. Call me cynical ("you are cynical - Ed" I know!) but how can the Berlin U-Bahn, which is a 2-track cut-and-cover railway, manage to maintain its infrastructure whilst also running all night on Thurs, Fri and Sat yet LU can't even contemplate a few hours' extension on one day of the week?

Thats because most lines have 4 tracks, you just use 2 of them at the hours of night time when they have fewer trains running.

If the tube ever did run a 24 hour service on a regular basis there would be no going back. With things as inflexible as they are, maybe a lot of high up people just don't want to take the risk of doing it and it all going terribly wrong.

A pity for Londoners.

I was very surprised looking at the conditions of the 1979-89 nyc subway that they actually ran 24 hours!
maybe we should take some ideas from the MTA subway and try it on our system

As long as we don't try their ideas about the seats:
www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?64583


Beautiful

A non-padded S stock seating. ;D

Get an earlier train then. It's not rocket science!