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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 9 09:19:28 2007, in response to Re: 93 NEW PHOTOS of the London Underground and National Rail (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 9 08:40:24 2007. I know quite a few people who do commute from Birmingham to London on inter-city trains. They find the cost of a first class season ticket quite reasonable, especially as it includes food. But this isn't screwing up the WCML service, its more the war between Branson and Silverlink for revenue apportionment that is doing this. Although there obviously is a market for fast trains from Birmingham southwards, most of these people want to go to London, don't want to go to places easily reached from Olympia, and don't want to go to Brighton. Those people who do want to head south are better catered for by a through route from Euston to Victoria. This is why the Olympia services didn't work when BR first provided them. Originally, there was quite a frequent service, but it has withered away.These days, I sense a blurring between inter-city and semi-fast trains, especially in terms of rolling stock provision. The tendency is towards air conditioning, airline style seats, etc. The only real difference these days is door placement. When the Norwich coaches finally give up the ghost, they will be replaced with something that is more like a Class 360 than a loco hauled train. Overall, in the future, if your train terminates within two hours of London, then you can expect a commuter-style MU train. My suggestion is that the WLL option provides no savings, results in unnecessary duplication of services, and will deter optional passengers from using it because of the inconvenience of West London Central (or whatever you want to call it) and the additional complexity of services. You have not really addressed this, for example by giving examples of the likely service patterns for the two different options. |
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