There may be 14 trains per hour on the Liverpool Loop line but how many people actually buy any of the following tickets:
James Street to Moorfields
James Street to Liverpool Central
Lime Street to Liverpool Central
People travel between these stations for interchange purposes, but I guess not many buying individual tickets for the journey in isolation
There may be 14 trains per hour on the Liverpool Loop line but how many people actually buy any of the following tickets:
James Street to Moorfields
James Street to Liverpool Central
Lime Street to Liverpool Central
People travel between these stations for interchange purposes, but I guess not many buying individual tickets for the journey in isolation
Altrincham to Navigation Rd (given pretty much everybody would use the parallel tram)
There may be 14 trains per hour on the Liverpool Loop line but how many people actually buy any of the following tickets:
James Street to Moorfields
James Street to Liverpool Central
Lime Street to Liverpool Central
People travel between these stations for interchange purposes, but I guess not many buying individual tickets for the journey in isolation
Anyone who travels between (say) Sheffield & East Midlands Parkway who is savvy will be using a splitting site and will therefore be sold a Long Eaton <> East Midlands Parkway ticket (if not they will likely be offered splits at Beeston it Derby)
So, while no-one may actually travel from Long Eaton to EMD, you will find the number of fares actually sold won't be as low as you expect
I used to get a single from Deansgate to oxford road every Friday for 70p, My drinking mate was on the inbound Southport train.Deansgate to Oxford Road similarly.
You can actually buy First Class TPE only tickets between Piccadilly and Victoria, including a Season Ticket at £42.70/week. I'd love to know if one had ever been sold!
I imagine another candidate for zero sales would be tickets between a parkway station and stations either side of them (where that station isn't the city for which the station was designed). I can't think of a singular reason why anyone travelling to Long Eaton would park at East Midlands Parkway for instance and as the station is in the middle of nowhere it's not as though there's a local demand for the journey (the only possible exception being staff members working at East Midlands parkway but these wouldn't be buying tickets as the service is operated by the same company asE the station is staffed by meaning they would be entitled to free travel).
I don't think Prestwick Town to Prestwick Airport will be very popular.
(Talking about Prestwick town to airport)
Pretty sure i seen someone do that journey a few months ago.
Westgate to Kirkgate is fairly quick on the free bus, but Kirkgate to Westgate can take ages in rush hour (pre-COVID). Still agree that probably not many bother with the train though.Wakefield Westgate to Wakefield Kirkgate must be a candidate surely?
A short walk between both, and there’s free Wakefield bus that shuttles between them and the town.
Does the DLR do 'point to point' tickets?Canary wharf to heron quays. They are practically in the same building
I suspect that quite a few tickets like this are bought (usually from a machine, anonymously) to get through the barriers without attracting attention before the passenger 'chances it' on a train to (say) London ready to wheel out the "I seem to have lost my ticket" excuse if challenged. Even more so in the 'new normal' of reduced on-board ticket checks.Id have a guess that Newcastle to Manors is little used.
Fair commentI think enthusiasts will buy the obscure ones like that (or say Reddish South to Denton) because they can, with no intention of travelling. For zero sales we need to look at obscure, uninteresting stuff.