LCRTrainfan979
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The reality is that the present is running needlessly non-stop through countless suburbs, which even London trains don't do with their calls at Clapham Junction and East Croydon, which offer good connections for frequent metro services, not hourly stopping services which is the only choice for many stations.
It's fair enough to run ultra-fast if it has a very long way to go (say if they ran London Waterloo via Guildford services from there), but not for what is already primarily a regional service, making a few calls in the suburbs appropriate.
Just look at Brighton/Worthing for example, where nearly all their suburban stations (other than Aldrington and Fishersgate and East worthing to a lesser extent) have a frequent service of at least 3-4 tph.
The problem with Southampton in part though is that are too many that are too close together, where for example, Sholing and Woolson are only about a 15 minute walk from each other, and currently, with no station having a superior service, it splits passengers, creating two underused stations that most trains don't call at on those grounds, whereas if the planners in the 1840s had known better, they would have had one station in the middle of where Woolston and Sholing actually are that would have perhaps roughly the same number of passengers of Woolston and Sholing put together, which would have created a busier station that more trains would call at.
Hamble and Netley are also not that far from each other, and could have maybe shared a station.
It's just good Dr Beeching didn't shut those stations to be fair.
Southern timetable changes consultation Coastway West
The 377/3s have first class available In which case I'm not sure why they wouldn't all be marked as first available as the reason not to is gone
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Good point.The Sholing-Woolston area itself is pretty built up so even if the bus connections are not as good as Southern imagine, I think the extra stops are still worth it and will be more convenient for a lot of customers.
The reality is that the present is running needlessly non-stop through countless suburbs, which even London trains don't do with their calls at Clapham Junction and East Croydon, which offer good connections for frequent metro services, not hourly stopping services which is the only choice for many stations.
It's fair enough to run ultra-fast if it has a very long way to go (say if they ran London Waterloo via Guildford services from there), but not for what is already primarily a regional service, making a few calls in the suburbs appropriate.
Just look at Brighton/Worthing for example, where nearly all their suburban stations (other than Aldrington and Fishersgate and East worthing to a lesser extent) have a frequent service of at least 3-4 tph.
The problem with Southampton in part though is that are too many that are too close together, where for example, Sholing and Woolson are only about a 15 minute walk from each other, and currently, with no station having a superior service, it splits passengers, creating two underused stations that most trains don't call at on those grounds, whereas if the planners in the 1840s had known better, they would have had one station in the middle of where Woolston and Sholing actually are that would have perhaps roughly the same number of passengers of Woolston and Sholing put together, which would have created a busier station that more trains would call at.
Hamble and Netley are also not that far from each other, and could have maybe shared a station.
It's just good Dr Beeching didn't shut those stations to be fair.
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