contact-form-7 domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/camcab/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Watford to Uxbridge.<\/span><\/p>\n And a reminder that our 2024 321 terminates at Watford Hospital and we need to change to a 322 which has come through from Hemel Hempstead.<\/p>\n But the 1977 service 321 ran all the way to Uxbridge also calling at …<\/p><\/div>\n Once upon a time it looked like this!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n Once a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n The line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n Once the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n And a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n Here Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n And there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n <\/p><\/span><\/div>\n … where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n Sweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n .. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n
![<\/a><\/div>\nThis blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a reminder that our 2024 321 terminates at Watford Hospital and we need to change to a 322 which has come through from Hemel Hempstead.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the 1977 service 321 ran all the way to Uxbridge also calling at …<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Watford Junction Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce upon a time it looked like this!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNext it called at<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWatford Market Place\n<\/a><\/div>\n… which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnlike at St Albans where City station did not get a mention in 1977, there are time points for …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nCroxley Green Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a reminder that our 2024 321 terminates at Watford Hospital and we need to change to a 322 which has come through from Hemel Hempstead.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBut the 1977 service 321 ran all the way to Uxbridge also calling at …<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Watford Junction Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce upon a time it looked like this!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNext it called at<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWatford Market Place\n<\/a><\/div>\n… which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnlike at St Albans where City station did not get a mention in 1977, there are time points for …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nCroxley Green Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nBut the 1977 service 321 ran all the way to Uxbridge also calling at …<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Watford Junction Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce upon a time it looked like this!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNext it called at<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWatford Market Place\n<\/a><\/div>\n… which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnlike at St Albans where City station did not get a mention in 1977, there are time points for …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nCroxley Green Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir2kRI4pbr7NjiMKnTx3dlMCC6MujrOSQGL94E6bkdSK_-md1PjTBXSB9wMjpvTtRLDrRQMmOcErVB8Qqsmti3dFw8yjiWm2KzRQeYgJaKpy9nKuLo9T9bTKqVQa_ITbCtjqB85zXpDMx7NJoBpvmRCpsMRPXxdo7jMXx33ReCyjurZOm8q484egnIVFkq\/s668\/screenshot.29889.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nOnce upon a time it looked like this!\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNext it called at<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWatford Market Place\n<\/a><\/div>\n… which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnlike at St Albans where City station did not get a mention in 1977, there are time points for …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nCroxley Green Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0KiIZOn1RgyFYYkzOYBLZ2g1ltmuFLB5nT6AzgiuAFyVLICdfxM9jsyyH_BtBDyRTdGXYXrUef3fdXnEXwUeMNjoKt193dWIypFeH6IxubpLtCa2ssQCJ1Ccne8oCqsH_FMB4ahdakXCybzsIfz9lHKFAt9loEhjxIealutEVv3mCL5PdUQOJIzLodb8Y\/s600\/9873751.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… which we met in yesterday’s blog. Note that today’s 322 is timed at Market Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nUnlike at St Albans where City station did not get a mention in 1977, there are time points for …<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nCroxley Green Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3LqJ9bavz2TDqz8WU1QzRxnUWx7ACkgkG2u6wNBAaPwl4-ea8BIgtCe8taYo9QLAvS1wIJUEqvrcVl_DjPO4Ix1V9uXhNBCA556mrEyaVDHtDMRPWh9Z6NT1MAQsmDQuO0FlTiz8eOcjTb_JZWppepPfRSBTmeR-iRQi9HdxE5H4LfNf18d5V3OS3zFVo\/s632\/Market-Place-High-Street-_Frith-Series-Postcard-WTF39_wm5965-632x400.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nOnce a reasonably well built edifice …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgXYh62mSd9M51LwWoylhOI5cfyzPnmuUV8wadEDmGKSKgeOagjo7uH74liBWGWASd_C2DmoW3F22DaoUWgY_SeGxOjAIIJxG9Yx9KZYTtrwNprjm7qo7y0uyk4seEVNDbJ75x1CGazGClG4hqh_srk3CHJd4ZAlrDxB4bucqXDeD6_mxopQOL1yAHcIlAf\/s585\/route_map.gif\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n… it ended up very sad indeed.\n<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh21IkakTZzTHp-0jLJCQUbiq7Aa5YX7GgEkW1fwcfEQQX0shhTlqS4K93XIf6uVm1xik3E8QJiCuduFlMueqnqcqNDKIT8LtLTQWJo3SMFrNEHVZRqR5VeW5oXA7J8EEVwk-mBBMwiRooYu_XfxsQsv7S8QfltG7JiXUxd7l4WLBIOHdgZ873_HTC0IlB4\/s598\/croxley(mike_matthews_late1960s)green_old3.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nThe line’s final fling was one solitary bus jouyrey in each direction.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nTen years after closure<\/span>, evidence still remained.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nOnce the line offered a proper service in association with the branch to Rickmansworth Church Street which closed in 1952.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nBlow is an over enlarged extract from the above. It shows a service too erratic to encourage passenger use!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9zLAg37NFDRfRGweXOg-ZZCqCt1aO2aK5vvf3cTInucTmJLyhB3BIZBkEff0HOGwExevmXQ0wfGy8JPgtlc1l3A3ajZnwrGwkzPqX0xVC0-DLkWVNdpKl9CdKgi2Cm1nGFuwesOvbAusXc1hRdO19zTE79wZz9CMoNVhAJQYCP_2rgQjqxggelr7yJCu4\/s584\/bradshaw.gif\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBoth were electrified as for the Watford electrics from Euston. Here a pre-BR Oerlikon set at Croxley Geen …\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nAnd a similar nit at Rickmansworth Church Street.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. 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Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. 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Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\nIt is worth noting that in the fbb extract from the 1977 timetable (above bordered in green) London’s county buses ran every 10 minutes between Garston garage and Rickmansworth<\/span>. This heady headway was on a Saturday, back in the day when Saturday was busier than Monday to Friday. Even during the week the “local” frequency was evety 15.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy catch an erratic train service when your bus is reliable, far more frequent and cheaper?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBack to Croxley …<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCroxley Station<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. 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Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. 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![<\/a><\/div>\n(also shown on the map above) was, and still is, on the Metropolitan branch to Watford. It hasn’t changed much since 1977.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhy952PKTprjM7BRmmrZ3a1QtRbjNTjbCXmd87ToCIsM0ZE5WDpY9uKovau0jk0HRLE9kzmQ5mHYgRPqdbEHbbc_224pPghTFlcEwmcjCJ_d2wMSOaErfOsx-tePMxPXVfsV-_U6yjSMiGPQ9KXd0xZHw8Hl95j45HGCj1x9k0461gdInOa1uZbimky3TEX\/s600\/9886746.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRickmansworth Station<\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhIb7O7H5w8sE5y4d6MLoaK2LKcqAI9xXZ11j4IkKJ0txA4OsdzrthyVi34R3hrM564YPXYTAlhETwBYJW5-0pcBJblNyXJ-FA4txqS4FpgB6vd4xvIMqM-5DG9k_a_DV2Mh9_4_EvfQnUgS01PyE3wFnRwtd6RzPTrBF2l4-7aZsAdPBJRslymZ_KacN9Z\/s1024\/Croxley_Tube_Station_-_exterior.JPG\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nHere Met trains are joined by National Rail in the form of Chiltern Trains.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgkAyZHLYcI9hFoVlqNuc1XpCSI7pSAwnVdMFsS0kHoUR5lcToXjzYw_M_j3ooQF49FQmt_DfsurphrzRDD8cRN-ATCOLFWM9IFpzg0ORqye-ySpLbEyVB_Ru9yXTGs8rGe6A5gNcVBWShdaZXDdJh49CBuVCzWEBzObOwJR6vtOaie7GAJ4I3N9e3OsDoU\/s836\/screenshot.29889.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgwbM_Bpo6pofiZ1sDeTG8PHjlH7IIr5EYYM5HaCTcI_BYJOVO8NghwH2EGvFLDOFi8EJ4JtQvaIukvS3ld9UtBtN5ofSJXQiv6o4oGshRdmfT82DBtD4F0inXHlHym-upkE22OTxdEB3DL7kc0pgJnFvczOPDxp1tdtaVDNS_d9KZZPaZwmO4M0-58aulP\/s890\/Screenshot_20240912_194040_YouTube.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBerry Lane Estate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiEvi5U_UKxyt2pm6BgTVqKMlBkDwh1VRCDokhw7gJ1DpKaCkKivtgWZPikV2n-Q7o4GB9CJtOkq5QVDDvY8fjxHId9-WjVuNktV_8tqb32VAEZd9dY5glfxvbAwN8YS7ODBagTTuTY5-Ik8CG8bBGIvhF81-LyGPIt9dCWBRK-Fuyiw52gT4wNcqJDZKFa\/s984\/Screenshot_20240912_193524_YouTube.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nQuite a complicated route, running frequently in 1977 but\u00a0at an unbalanced twice an hour today (see timetable extract above), the Rickmansworth 321 had its own dinky turning circle now used by Arriva’s 322.\n<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhG_vr1QTBzzDSs9wd608p08zp3QyxGD7me-tLjy46VsoW2dSLlXFoGqTLqYvPJYtApKUDgTYCI7_0-8ztc38wTGHSit4eXrsqK0CDxT0QkUXbfEY4Q9cPUHFCV_ZUQSzjSNwXp9lnhmWTUH_rfJD9pPJtqOeGI-jh4MVsNin0r7yAqzuEIexOt_-jzLgft\/s664\/screenshot.29895.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nAnd there is today’s 322 doing it!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhKxCuo26CIYZHw_v0BrMrgG0eUmO75ondfHN1NQO_hUYWnvH8Khl2Mh4A_8Zj96eFIgEJGdQkgsa_HV-99HqI5DEaJKhnZLK9CMPyrLFbUMHWt6I52EiE9edFk9n8kiHlEm6vQLtVOqxNPwDSdbQI0Q7M3hYN7rG3a5Sa6Tfmkdzxd6O5D4q6D_Nu8q5bw\/s1158\/screenshot.29896.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/span><\/div>\nMaple Cross The Cross<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_CX4zUIch6nKiTu-jHFTzKjiI0mhumr9ri15xjsaJi2LImU4hbDa4eB1V6aDgzCLGhRwQNOJI8P0wqtWzRMPmDFKvTy-x8zuUSZJIvCl-gGoN67K3jZIrSyDmpOQvBC9EZ3xPMAOUqC4Bz_1RpWblxTKhS58rB3uBtYmDp6p6BhtG8r7IYvx0dtRGYNTm\/s814\/screenshot.29897.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nRecently, it was just a pub that may have had a more ancient historical existence. Now divided into private dwellings, It is on the main road, and in 1977 was served by the half hourly 321s to Uxbridge plus the hourly terminating journeys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThese hourly “shorts”, like today’s terminating equivalents, simply served a small loop in the estate with their time point on a road called Downings Wood …\n<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgqcDfkVJijlqVN1P7hXTG2lb39PY39dI_n_Yej_1FJRWfP4Lsol-3vd4OTixZHIi_CAMbXfvCTeSg0LrF7wbnzux3_AyUDnYUnYyzs6R9SzF1ACZOEDq3qEojivxpWUVeOY1AuzEbF8-UuGr12G6mK9ECFXrGhGIsK7sMWD4oeOTqbVhwENLc5Wv-u-cNj\/s526\/screenshot.29898.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n… where, hit news, a brand new “rustic” poeple shelter has recently been installed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiAEMCo3sa470le2ZOlbQz-VHs3myS6-qHL1FkxrE2edWk8LNqq0x2Qb_nCLCT5HrJ9voHzS_vUSLFgYTT5IzyjA6uABvsA2Dq4nR4HUC4ZZtd11TzK5hpVqjOpZ8HnBUlSoC-oSt6WSkkLWF0id83d9vUoLcPuZfIplybd7otgHPqrA52D_uJTxInEM7qp\/s820\/screenshot.29894%20(3).jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nSweet!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs previously explained, the only realistic service now running south from Maple Cross is the limited stop route 724. Like its 321 chum, this serves Denham Station …\n<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh7wEQKlSDmjFPvgPj14CViB4wDjoG1oTI4zRqI7ioICJshfof1dlXgAxBxrZtYJiG6CZl72t0ebiLOMyhF95mtr6uGMPLt3dJ-PWrZJqVSq5us5e39h3Cu1ov8nSkkHQm_aUJvtwJ3Oz16El4B6Ln6GlRqrxnlhyMEit270u6Jj4J6hEMwTmOy68BOhBk4\/s696\/screenshot.29895%20(3).jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n.. on the Chiltern Line of National Rail, one stop on from the end of the Central underground line at West Ruislip.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHWfv-bKDzR8cvk78bYCTkyZaedxuN2OA1Q47mHy1PZitDu1Bnc9Ky1KYAmcEC-TpnlEPjOvvKNgWjisXecQtEWBFEC-vRSB0hVj_VYLOzW5WmQ-KAS12FLre7-bOB5_s5SnHlcRQHe6gq7RQ70OScgPY0Ll6-DaYxzmmKvrE-THCZxXngSZ4vm_BMSR03\/s606\/screenshot.29899.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe old 321 terminated at Uxbridge with its Metropolitan and Piccadilly line services.\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgdbZJUgI_EQOAe9UM8Ex1nq822_EnYGz04jHX46q-r361vTS1NyECa4seHC_kuaqMNNsxPC7u-PQfRNTfBPWLZRCsFmMj4cEEAosOw_fmD6fwK9xCUg0JjPh9R5adbaH0CqyUJHWCUXjFJhkVHaY9yRt35sqhGDveBhld1oZOuwm45T5K-_6RwMTACOjvF\/s564\/screenshot.29895%20(2).jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nNo doubt somebody will know the correct dates when the 321 was withdrawn south of Maple Cross.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd we should not leave this topic without wondering whatever happened to the plan to re-open the Croxley Green branch by diverting all (or in later proposals,\u00a0 some) of the Metropolitan line trains into Watford Junction.\n<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgHnZVUU2jaC3g7Chd84i0kR4Byj3wJCnqaHwcSJ1Y_wT_ZF7jjems2kX3QepDjaWCNVIAnPqwZooEppvkqysXmsNSADCea-Da4BM0Sczf2Mvj8zN3wJcBZdgVtedvNdOrq8S0MQfxrJqCQ8rE2b-sqRxr2ZwwZk2ZI8ttKVVckJi3th_dzMPLZMyCXlELn\/s822\/screenshot.29894%20(2).jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a><\/div>\nIt seem that Herfordshire lost their bottle and couldn’t find enough money!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere concludes the 321 blog series – or does it? Yesterday, fbb received more information from correspondent Julian which will need a proper ponder.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0Next Variety blog : Saturday 13th September\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watford to Uxbridge. This blog was composed on Wednesday afternoon after a truly bloggable outing on Llew Jones service 19 from Llandudno (blog to follow next week).\u00a0 For all sorts of reasons it was somewhat tiring, so fbb is creating this post with eyelids “virtually” propped open with a couple of memory sticks. And a reminder that our 2024 321…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhE-_HlIOHi_79J17oSxdeUXwkbr51iATJzsLTNls4GcSxPcpOHB8TQf4S3PE-ThN6JX5izfi0GSVWfSxEdm3UagjyhgDQTakys-SfeOsfS01U3pzEJ8xbetzlPTq4Q01SmmP9Y8IvrIUAYv4Gs9S6XHRl4Jy95BhIrWdBfcKf-En0q-bINZPxNv_aPLzDz\/s585\/croxley_rail_link.gif\"){kind=link}