Easter weekend travel: What you can expect during Britain’s second-busiest holiday, from rail to road

Analysis: Harrow & Wealdstone is spending an unusual weekend in the limelight

On a normal Friday lunchtime, the distant end of London’s Bakerloo line is sparsely populated. The pale brickwork and cream-and-plum colonnade on platform 1 greets a Tube train only every 10 minutes, depositing a handful of passengers.

But on Good Friday, every Underground train arriving from Elephant & Castle was, in the jargon, “full and standing” – packed with hundreds of travellers and their baggage.

The same will apply on Easter Monday, when Harrow & Wealdstone will again act as understudy for one of the busiest stations in Britain, London Euston. It is serving as the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line – the nation’s artery, connecting the capital with Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and beyond.