CaptainHaddock
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I had a lovely day out in St Albans yesterday - it’s a great place if you like walking, history and real ale! Yet to get there from Sheffield you have to change at Leicester, Kettering and Luton, even though it’s on the same line. I was wondering therefore why EMR don’t stop at St Albans even though it’s a sizeable city which attracts plenty of tourists?
Looking at an old thread on here, ( https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/did-inter-city-stop-at-st-albans-in-the-timetable.167483/ ) I can see that Intercity services from Sheffield did stop there back in the 1970s and 1980s but were withdrawn once the electrified Bedford - St Pancras service was introduced.
However now the line is electrified through from Corby, EMR run two trains an hour from there, which stop at Bedford, Luton and Luton Airport Parkway then run fast to St Pancras. Surely there’s a market for at least one or both of these to call at St Albans? Or perhaps even one of the Nottingham - St Pancras trains, which would enable travellers from the North to change just once at Leicester?
Looking at an old thread on here, ( https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/did-inter-city-stop-at-st-albans-in-the-timetable.167483/ ) I can see that Intercity services from Sheffield did stop there back in the 1970s and 1980s but were withdrawn once the electrified Bedford - St Pancras service was introduced.
However now the line is electrified through from Corby, EMR run two trains an hour from there, which stop at Bedford, Luton and Luton Airport Parkway then run fast to St Pancras. Surely there’s a market for at least one or both of these to call at St Albans? Or perhaps even one of the Nottingham - St Pancras trains, which would enable travellers from the North to change just once at Leicester?