But it will be additional millage on the units and maintaince, which is a cost. Obviously not a big one it seems.
Yes, no doubt.
As someone once write on here, there will always be winners and losers.
I do appreciate it isn't a simple job to recast the timetable. I'm just keen to see 2 fast trains an hour from Guildford to Clapham Junction, 7 days a week.
Airport traffic has massively increased this summer although big part of the problem along here isn't so much seating capacity as somewhere to put the luggage people seem to want to take with them. Personally rather than levying air passenger duty they should charge by the size of bags anyhow going off topic. This line must be a good income earner as people have to by open returns rather than cheaper day returns but still miles cheaper than the long term parking at Gatwick so as with Stansted boosting frequency will boost revenue.
Contrast that with how long it took them to bring back the Gatwick Airport services following the original lockdown. Getting anywhere took time.
Post 517 above?
For me, the link in post 517 is now showing only the current timetables.
It was supposed to get a hourly swanline in addition to the hourly Maesteg to Ebbw Vale service but I believe its been pushed back to May 2024
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
Having a scroll through RTT it seems Avanti may be planning to run one service class 800 service north of Preston to Lancaster and back to London
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C02201/2023-12-11/detailed
There’s also a later service which starts at preston and only stops and Nuneaton and Milton Keynes
Realtime Trains | 3A94 1901 Preston to London Euston | 11/12/2023
Real-time train running information for 3A94 1901 departure from Preston to London Euston on 11/12/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
Yes I know exactly how it’s planned to work, and I like the idea, I’m just annoyed that it doesn’t show to be running from December unless you count a weeny section 1530-1730.
I would argue that since you now have the fast trains from London to Oxford stopping at Didcot, running the shuttle on this side of the hour makes no sense, when most passengers will just take the faster, slightly earlier train anyway. The other side of the hour can pick up the calls at Culham, Radley and Appleford, which also results in a nice even hourly timetable for those stops (or 2-hourly for Appleford), so this is smart usage of resources imo.
There's only four services each way a day, two morning and two late afternoon;
www.realtimetrains.co.uk
There's only four services each way a day, two morning and two late afternoon;
Realtime Trains | Departures from Wakefield Kirkgate between 0600 and 2000 on 20/12/2023
Train information at Wakefield Kirkgate between 0600 and 2000 on 20/12/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.
There route knowledge runs for Church Fenton - Castleford - Wakefield Kirkgate - Mirfield used during engineering works. They provide a limited passenger service so Northern can stop the current bus replacements, looking at the timings they can easily be cancelled Hudds - York without affecting the Hudds - Manchester stoppers.
Agreed, it looks a more logical structure, with a much better service for Gatwick passengers and very little if any detrimental effect for local users. If travelling to or from Gatwick it was an annoyance that if you just missed the direct train, the poor Southern connection at Redhill meant that using the Redhill terminator was little better than waiting an hour for the next through service. At certain times of day the Redhill train seemed to lay over at Reading for extended periods too, which might now have been eliminated.
