I've seen it discussed in the Restoring Your Railway fund thread that there's not currently the capacity to deliver both an additional hourly service between Preston and Blackpool South through a dynamic loop on the Fylde line, and a hypothetical hourly Preston-Fleetwood working. It would have to be one or another.
Is this something that could be dealt with through capacity upgrades at Preston: presumably by bringing the ex-RES platform back into use?
And if not, what creative route-linking could be considered to square the circle of both an hourly Fleetwood working, and a half hourly Blackpool South one? 2tph Ormskirk-Blackpool South? The York working diverted along the Fylde line? Some other alternative?
Is this something that could be dealt with through capacity upgrades at Preston: presumably by bringing the ex-RES platform back into use?
And if not, what creative route-linking could be considered to square the circle of both an hourly Fleetwood working, and a half hourly Blackpool South one? 2tph Ormskirk-Blackpool South? The York working diverted along the Fylde line? Some other alternative?