Largest station that doesn't have a Sunday service? Trivia

[Llandudno]

If they opened Edge Hill on a Sunday and trains stopped there, would there be any loss?

How many of the 196k per annum actually boarded or alighted there....

 

[Llandudno]

I suppose Edge Hill could be used as an interchange station from the St Helens line to the Warrington line to save the double back from Lime Street?

 

[Mag_seven]

Bromley North

See post #13

 

[Glenn1969]

Wiki says Edge Hill had 14,000 interchanges in 2017/18

 

[rogercov]

I commuted from West Dulwich to Holborn Viaduct 1980-81. Holborn Viaduct (and Blackfriars) were both closed on Sundays at this time.

Very true. It seems that there was no Saturday or Sunday service at Holborn Viaduct or Blackfriars in the early 80s.
Both stations were open throughout the 60s, but by 1975, the weekend services were terminated at Blackfriars. By 1977, Blackfriars was also closed at weekends with all the trains going into Victoria.
I'm guessing it probably stayed like that until Thameslink happened.

 

[scrapy]

I suppose Edge Hill could be used as an interchange station from the St Helens line to the Warrington line to save the double back from Lime Street?

There's nothing to be gained from this on a Sunday as you would just have a 20/25 minute wait at Edge Hill, rather than a 10/15 minute wait at Lime St in each direction.

 

[Llandudno]

There's nothing to be gained from this on a Sunday as you would just have a 20/25 minute wait at Edge Hill, rather than a 10/15 minute wait at Lime St in each direction.

Maybe useful if the Liverpool bound train is running late?

 

[ijmad]

I've been looking at a few timetables from the early 60s.

Are there sources online for old timetables or is this your personal collection?

 

[frodshamfella]

There's nothing to be gained from this on a Sunday as you would just have a 20/25 minute wait at Edge Hill, rather than a 10/15 minute wait at Lime St in each direction.

I remember on a very cold Sunday night in late 80s when I was travelling from Euston to Prescot, there was a lot of snow about, managed to get a train to Crewe then the local Crewe- Liverpool stopper, I got off at Edge Hill, thinking I might just catch the Prescot train there, not wanting to miss it as it left Lime Street. What a mistake, it was a long connection, nowhere to get out of the cold. I ended up catching a cab as wait was so long.

 

[rogercov]

Are there sources online for old timetables or is this your personal collection?

There are some available online. I forget where but I've seen it mentioned on these forums.
I was consulting my own collection - various ones from late 50s to early 80s.

 

[Jamesrob637]

Not a Sunday as such, but Thameslink appeared to be running more or less a normal service through the core last Bank Holiday Monday. I wonder how much passenger movement there was. Bank Holiday working is slowly becoming more and more popular with companies offering a day in lieu, but many companies still close down entirely.