I appreciate the need for some cuts, I appreciate that we are in a tough climate, but these seem to be very lopsided.
For example, Kirkcaldy goes down from
- Two "fast" Edinburgh services per hour
- Two Edinburgh "stoppers" per hour
- Direct trains to Perth/ Inverness etc
...to...
- Two Edinburgh "stoppers" per hour
Falkirk goes from:
- Eight Edinburgh trains per hour
- Six Glasgow trains per hour
...to...
- Four Edinburgh trains per hour
- Three Glasgow trains per hour (with five intermediate stops on all Waverley - Falkirk High - Queen Street services, rather than half of the services being "fast" each side of Falkirk)
...Bathgate/ Tweedbank also etc lose half their services but at the same time Stirling sees an increase in services to Edinburgh/ Dundee/ Inverness... Aberdeen seems to retain everything that it had (as does East Lothian/ Inverness)...
...I accept that it's hard to make minor reductions to some services (e.g.when everything is based around hourly/ half hourly clock face patterns, it's hard to reduce services to every twenty or forty five minutes, but it feels like the axe is hitting some places pretty harshly whilst others are unscathed - Kirkcaldy especially
Also, after taking years to bring the HSTs into squadron service, the service cuts seem to have been a great time to have them run everything on the "Inter7City" routes, but instead the Turbostars seem to be making a resurgence on long distance routes!
Agreed - I don't think that people realise how badly the ferries have been handled