You get departures from Waterloo at xx:57, xx:12, xx:27 & xx:42, all of them call at ALL shacks. And they're almost invariably late and delay the following Woking or Guildford service (basically they're a RPITA!).
You get departures from Shepperton at xx:10 & xx:40, departures from Kingston at xx:03, xx:18, xx:33 & xx:48 and during the peaks some extras from/to Shepperton via Richmond.
There's more than enough calls at New Malden with these and the Hampton Court services, it's just the timetabling is wee wee poor and the Shepperton follows the Hampton Court by just a very few minutes and they regularly get delayed because the up Woking stopper is delayed by the up Basingstoke & Altons.
The end result is that the mainline trains end up doing an lovely 36 mph amble up the up main slow following those, if you miss the Hampton Court to New Malden, go to Wimbledon & back or even use your Oyster card and catch the bus to Kingston from Surbiton.
I really don't see why the passengers on the mainline & Cobham line should suffer any further deterioration of journey time than what they already have and that's an increase of about 10-15%, just to benefit a few on the Kingston loop.
I fully take your point and I don't actually need to go to New Malden. Saying that there are times when it would be helpful to get to Berrylands but the stopping service leaves 10 minutes from the Cobham line one or 20 minutes after if you like. Its just as quick to walk in that time.
However my point was more theoretical than it actually affecting me personally. Just that I saw the 7.36 call additionally at New Malden and still be booked to depart from Clapham Junction the same time as those that miss out New Malden. Unless there is another train cancelled somewhere and it's covering it, it suggests there is currently time for trains to call at New Malden.
Whether Cobham trains should call at these stations is another debate in my opinion. After all by skipping new Malden they are not currently timetabling the train to depart from Clapham Junction any earlier, so what's the harm in stopping there or other places where the trains don't currently stop? Unless there is a train behind which needs the path but if that was the case I'd have a donated the train to depart Clapham Junction 26 minutes past rather than 28 minutes past.
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a.) transfer the calls to other services
or maybe
b.) close the station because it is too awkward to call there
Hmmm, that's a hard one...
Loads of people living in Guildford towards Worplesden use it because getting into Guildford is a PITA and parking in Guildford is expensive.
All it needs is am accident on the A3 and Guildford's one way system is screwed because those trying to get into the A3 end up blocking the roads for those trying to get anywhere else.
Not an easy choice, given the other services, outside of peak rush hour at least, are meant to be fast so skip Worplesden and Clapham Junction.
They would also have to extend the Woking stoppers to Guildford or you'd only have 2 trains an hour to Woking. Perhaps that's all people think Woking needs. They could run a shuttle using Woking's platform 6.
They could even run it 7 minutes before the fast train leaves, like they do on Sundays. In the opposite direction from Woking they could rub it just 3. I bytes after the fast train leaves, again just like on Sundays. [Not being serious by the way].
In fact these shuttles could call at Worpolesden. Southern run shuttles between Brighton and Hove after all.
One slight flaw is the lack of rolling stock, which no doubt puts pay to that idea or anything similar.
