bramling
Veteran Member
The whole point of them is those stations, and serving them hourly is a franchise requirement. The service does not exist to provide an alternative to Virgin, that's a fortunate side-effect.
Or unfortunate side-effect, if you travel from somewhere like Atherstone where LM is your only service, and the train is stuffed full of people on cheap advances from Crewe or Stoke-on-Trent - whilst watching half-empty Pendolinos cruise past every 20 minutes.
Longer LM trains would of course largely resolve this situation, but thusfar it hasn't happened.