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Re: West London Line & West Coast Main Line (Was: Cockfosters) |
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Posted by David Fairthorne on Thu Jan 11 17:00:49 2007, in response to Re: West London Line & West Coast Main Line (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Rail Blue on Thu Jan 11 14:29:29 2007. In order to estimate the demand for through trains on the West London Line, you need to know what proportion of passengers arriving at Euston from the midlands and north want to reach stations on the Brighton line, or want to reach places that can themselves be reached more easily from those stations than from Euston. I estimate one in five.Then you need to know what proportion of those people come from the same area; say Birmingham rather than Manchester, Liverpool or Glasgow. If one person in five comes from Birmingham, and one in five of them wants to continue on the Brighton line, that makes one person in 25, which would not justify a through service. Even if that estimate is low, any additonal services on the Brighton line would mean adding to the existing choice of routes (Victoria, London Bridge and Thameslink), resulting in reduced services on those routes and additional operational complexity. |
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