Metropolitan Line - Services

Services

Since 11 December 2011 the off-peak service has been entirely "all-stations" stopping trains, and the "fast" and "semi-fast" trains run only in Monday to Friday peak hours.

The current off-peak service pattern is as follows:

• 4 trains an hour between Uxbridge and Aldgate;
• 4 trains an hour between Uxbridge and Baker Street;
• 4 trains an hour between Watford and Baker Street;
• 2 trains an hour between Amersham and Aldgate;
• 2 trains an hour between Chesham and Aldgate.

This requires 35 trains.

The peak-hour service pattern is more complex, with trains running between Aldgate and all the four northern termini. The southbound service in the morning peak is a 32-minute cycle of 12 trains arriving at Baker Street at 2.5- or 3-minute intervals as follows (all-stations trains except where shown otherwise):

• Amersham to Aldgate (semi-fast);
• Uxbridge to Baker Street;
• Amersham to Aldgate (fast);
• Watford to Baker Street;
• Watford to Aldgate (semi-fast);
• Uxbridge to Aldgate;
• Watford to Baker Street;
• Uxbridge to Aldgate;
• Chesham to Aldgate (fast);
• Uxbridge to Baker Street;
• Watford to Aldgate (semi-fast);
• Uxbridge to Baker Street.

The northbound service in the afternoon peak is a 32-minute cycle of 12 trains leaving Baker Street as follows:

• Baker Street to Amersham (semi-fast);
• Aldgate to Uxbridge;
• Aldgate to Watford (semi-fast);
• Baker Street to Watford;
• Aldgate to Chesham (fast);
• Aldgate to Uxbridge;
• Baker Street to Watford (semi-fast);
• Aldgate to Uxbridge;
• Aldgate to Watford (semi-fast);
• Baker Street to Uxbridge;
• Aldgate to Amersham (fast);
• Aldgate to Uxbridge.

The peak service requires 49 trains Monday to Friday mornings, and 50 in the evening.

The first train each morning from Chesham runs direct to Watford via the "north curve" between Rickmansworth and Croxley. Two other early-morning trains run direct from Rickmansworth to Watford. The last train from Watford at night runs direct to Rickmansworth.