Indeed, but Nantwich only gets a 2 hourly service for a few hours in the middle of the day. Fill in those gaps with Cardiff services by all means, but there are much higher priorities for TfW than running the local hourly - and that's got nothing to do with the line being in England.
The Slows which GWR use have plenty of capacity and now the 9R's run through to Three Bridges they have P1 or P2 available for longer turn rounds as they are rather tight now given most passengers have hefty bags to get on off the train. Despite short turnaround GWR crews are exemplary in trying to achieve the turnarounds given they have to do it all again when they get up to Redhill. Puts plenty of operators to shame.
It won't be. Timetable doesn't work if it's removed. There is also freight in the way in some hours now.
Well that's a bit of a blow. They certainly didn't say that when they added the minutes!
Its massively improved performance though.
I would not be surprised to see extra stops added in these trains - for example not having at least a Taunton stop in the Bristol to Exeter seems kinda crazy
Indeed its great how NR tells us that all the disruption to journeys will be worth it as it will result in faster and more reliable journeys for our passengers once completed. Seems that when they say faster what they really mean is more chance that your journey wont be delayed as you rarely see a project or new rolling stock being exploited. There was once a time when reduced journey time was the key driver to increased revenue but perhaps thats now weakened in favour of journey reliability?
Nah performance on the BML has always been a problem - removing splitting and joining at Haywards Heath has helped but the timetable is still tight and not particularly well performing in places.
Seems to vary between journey time and padding for performance depending on which way the wind blows every few years. Under Andrew Adonis there was a drive for journey times hence the 4 hour Edinburgh to London introduced in May 2011, but the journey times in the East Coast Recast are comparatively poor, presumably for "performance".
It's performing a lot better than it has been previously. Particularly with far more padded Southern service around Gatwick Airport. B
The main thing for ensuring the BML performs well (northbound) is making sure Southern services present at Preston Park/Keymer Jn/Three Bridges right time - having lots of padding particularly around somewhere like Gatwick just causes congestion. The West Coastway recast in June should help but I stand by my point that removing attach and detach at Haywards Heath is the main thing which has made the BML work better in recent years.
I agree with your first point but I don't agree with the latter.
That's fine, I'm sure it's not the first time and it won't be the last
That's fine, I'm sure it's not the first time and it won't be the last
If only all debates where this amicable!Indeed now the Up Arun Valleys cross over on North side of Gatwick they sit there for scheduled 4m but invariably the 1Mxx up in front of it has a late departure causing the 1C's to end up over time.Then it doesn't take much delay to block the 9J on the down slow. Some slack in the schedules is necessary but it would be better spreading that 4m out at E.Croydon where station overtime are frequent with platform despatch unlike Thameslink who even under heavy loadings can outperform Southern dwell times by 10-15s.
After Castleford the trains will stop at Sherborne-in-Elmet only before terminating at York.
Sherborne-in-Elmet only.
This is welcome news, although the stopping pattern is still to be announced/confirmed...
So is Stansted going to 2 airport services per hour then? We are currently at 1tph to the airport, and 1tph to Cambridge which is rather insufficient.
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