Journeyman
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Perhaps supply was a factor on demand.
From my Summer 1963 passenger timetable (some years before closure) the mainline service departures from Marylebone on a week day were:
03.40, 08.38,14.38,16.38,21.15, all to Nottingham.
The argument against the closure of the GC was that the tactic had been used of providing a level of service that destroyed demand some time before closure was proposed.
Incidentally, although the frequency varies between 2 and 6 hours, the minutes were pretty consistent.
I think it's much more a case of the service gradually being reduced because so few people used it. Even the service on the ECML and WCML was far less frequent and regular in those days than it is now, so there wasn't anything massively unusual about that.
The GC was a dead duck even before it was opened.