If they had been arranged to have one staircase for boarding and one for alighting that might have helped, but I've never seen them working in that way and there's no signage to suggest people do that.
I can't see TLGN getting a lot. Except for very late in the day they are almost always overtaken by an LNER service.
It's been a while since I got an advance between London and Newcastle but when I did, they were regularly a lot less than that. There's usually a lot of footfall at Peterborough.
Thanks. For some reason I've not had a chance to try out the Wizz since it started - I used to catch the X43 between Burnley and Skipton every couple of months.
I was referring to the third line that @Wallsendmag was highlighting - that LNER issue split tickets as just one ticket. I've been using split ticketing websites for years.
Indeed. It's curious that inside and outside London opposite rules apply. The village I grew up in and spent 20-odd years of my life in, I caught a bus running short a grand total of once. Was most odd to see a different destination on the front of the bus (and that was because of long delays...
Outside of London, buses are not supposed to run short unless it's impossible to complete a journey.
Inside London the emphasis is in not having long gaps between services (except on infrequent services where keeping to the timetable is key - you'd still expect if two buses were running together...