Harrow O T Hill Marylebone & Non-Stop Chesham Trains

Harrow On The Hill station in north London is served by the London Underground Metropolitain Line and mainline services out of London Marylebone station.

This mid 1990's view shows a southbound evening peak hour working heading for Marylebone using platform 2 comprised of a first generation 'slam door' diesel multiple unit train, a northbound service for Chesham non-stopping this station using platform 3 plus more...

The Chesham train was unable to use platform 1 because it needed to cut across the path of the Marylebone train, so to avoid delaying one of these trains it used an alternative routing and switched to the 'fast' tracks north of the station.

By missing out this station the fast Chesham services featured a non-stop run of almost 20 minutes - woe betide any unsuspecting passenger who was on the wrong train! Nowadays Chesham trains call here too.

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[peterjayy]

Classic footage indeed ! great stuff & thank you for posting :^)

P.

[citytransportinfo]

You are welcome!

Simon

[citytransportinfo]

yes.

AFAIK all the through Chesham (from central London) trains are 8 car - unlike the Chalfont & Latimer shuttles which are just 4 car.

ha! I say 'all' but that actually means 2 each peak hour Mon-Fri only.

btw, whilst on the Chesham branch the 4 car shuttles 'rest' in the bay platform at Chalfont.

[bus140808]

I hope to become a train driver eventually. I love em!!

[No1Tubefan]

I hope to be a Train Driver eventually to

[GeekRoad]

@imyk2k9 same fuckin hate the train i'm from amersham and today the modern underground is sick not like in the 90's it was white and i like the modern chiltern railways train today

glad to born in the late 90's

[imyk2k9]

i hate the old times in london argh!

[imyk2k9]

luv dis train ma fav

[krakenwave]

Yup. back in the early 80s there were rush-hour fast Uxbridge and Watford trains

[formulacountdown]

I'm From Harrow too. Fast Uxbridge????

[ricksuffolk]

Class 115 - Albion engines

[DarkRage960]

what class was that DMU again

[bus140808]

aww thanx 4 that! :-)

[krakenwave]

Check out District Dave's website (easy to find) - its by a train driver and is full of wonder and win. My mum was an LU train driver (one of the first women - she started on the Central but later transferred to the District) who retired a few years ago - and she rates this site as the best of its kind she's seen .

[krakenwave]

I'm from Harrow - and surprised to learn that the fast Chesham didn't stop. The Met line was part of my growing-up:THE way to either London or the countryside but the only time I commuted daily was early to mid 80s to Kings X. My usual train home was a fast Uxbridge but I'm sure I got Amershams occasionally. No Cheshams though, I s#pose. Anyway, great vid, ta.