Least popular journeys made between two stations served by a direct train? Based on tickets sold?

[alangla]

I've also seen an Edinburgh Waverley to Haymarket season ticket. Same reason as above, this pass was produced near Croy.

Amateurs. When I commuted on the E&G (using a Zonecard I have to say!) there were a substantial number of people who appeared to use paper flexipasses as reusable Queen Street gate passes. The giveaway was the desperate scrabbling through their bags for a pen on the very rare occasions the gripper bothered to leave the back cab or, rarer, there was a TE or similar in the front unit of a 6 car 170.

ScotRail appear to have finally cottoned on to this & the flexipass now seems to be smart card only.

 

[Scotrail84]

Amateurs. When I commuted on the E&G (using a Zonecard I have to say!) there were a substantial number of people who appeared to use paper flexipasses as reusable Queen Street gate passes. The giveaway was the desperate scrabbling through their bags for a pen on the very rare occasions the gripper bothered to leave the back cab or, rarer, there was a TE or similar in the front unit of a 6 car 170.

ScotRail appear to have finally cottoned on to this & the flexipass now seems to be smart card only.

I used a sharpie pen on the flexis, or a hole punch. The old trick with them, and it was mainly women who tried this was to put hand cream on the tickets as normal biros wouldn't work on them.

 

[Statto]

In conurbations like Greater Manchester, day-long tickets such as the Ranger may hide the fact that people do travel between stations that they normally wouldn't buy a ticket for. Example, I wouldn't buy Oxford Road to Piccadilly, but if I had a Ranger I could well use it for that short journey if convenient, so around the region there may well be plenty of examples where those with day cards find it convenient to pop on and pop off 2 mins down the road, but they wouldn't consider it if they had to buy a single ticket.

Yep like i've mentioned people doing Manchester Oxford Road to Piccadilly most likely be on a GMPTE pass or rail ranger/rail season type of ticket, in fact i've Oxford Road to Piccadilly a few times but on a GM Wayfarer, or Rover ticket. Actually the CLC stopper starts/terminates at Oxford Road, so i'd have thought a few would go to/from Oxford Road to Piccadilly, where the express doesn't stop at their station on the CLC route.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Yep like i've mentioned people doing Manchester Oxford Road to Piccadilly most likely be on a GMPTE pass or rail ranger/rail season type of ticket, in fact i've Oxford Road to Piccadilly a few times but on a GM Wayfarer, or Rover ticket. Actually the CLC stopper starts/terminates at Oxford Road, so i'd have thought a few would go to/from Oxford Road to Piccadilly, where the express doesn't stop at their station on the CLC route.

I've made the short hop from Piccadilly to Oxford Road a few times in the past, for example when attending concerts at the Uni or visiting friends who live along the frequent bus routes that run down that corridor. Always on a Huddersfield to Manchester Stations ticket though, such as if the train I've boarded in Huddersfield was a Picc terminator or reversal (pre-Ordsall Chord).

 

[Graeme]

Can't think many Acklington to Pegswood tickets will ever have been sold.

 

[peteb]

Can't think many Acklington to Pegswood tickets will ever have been sold.

Thinking of the northeast, are there ANY direct Chathill to Berwick trains nowadays?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Thinking of the northeast, are there ANY direct Chathill to Berwick trains nowadays?

The Newcastle -> Chathill stopper hasn't continued on to Berwick for quite some time, has it? Just reverses at Belford before reverse working back towards Newcastle again.

 

[DB]

The Newcastle -> Chathill stopper hasn't continued on to Berwick for quite some time, has it? Just reverses at Belford before reverse working back towards Newcastle again.

Was the case last time I looked. Why do they do that? It makes no sense at all given that Berwick is the main town in that area, and gives connections to Scotland.

 

[marsker]

No, and probably not for upwards of 20 years. They probably stopped when stopping services between Newcastle and Edinburgh ceased.
The morning and evening stopping services that currently run to Chathill used to run from Berwick, but I think that was when there was still a depot at Tweedmouth.

 

[Ianno87]

Was the case last time I looked. Why do they do that? It makes no sense at all given that Berwick is the main town in that area, and gives connections to Scotland.

Not really the purpose of the service; it's more a Newcastle commuter service for the Northumberland local stations; it just goes the absolute minimum distance to pick up these stations and no more.

 

[marsker]

There is a current study going on to provide a local service between Newcastle and Berwick.

 

[DB]

Not really the purpose of the service; it's more a Newcastle commuter service for the Northumberland local stations; it just goes the absolute minimum distance to pick up these stations and no more.

Yes, but it could equally offer commuting services into Berwick - people towards Chathill are just as likely to be working there as they are to be working in Newcastle.

 

[peteb]

Agreed, and Chathill does serve as a rail head for the surrounding area, although granted the population probably doesn't tick sufficient boxes to warrant a dedicated service to Berwick. In the dim distant past I recall getting an evening loco hauled train from Edinburgh which stopped at Chathill......but now I am digressing from my own thread !

 

[kez19]

I will throw this one.... Broughty Ferry to Glasgow, you get the odd timings towards Glasgow however there is more services to Edinburgh (it seems you get more of a direct train to Edinburgh and return than you do Glasgow).

tickets wise: return Glasgow is £40.30 singles at moment £24.60 (better using Dundee and same price)
return Edinburgh: £37.50 (anytime) return - singles at moment £20.90 each way
Aberdeen: £32.20 (off peak) return - singles each way £22.10

For where I stay in these terms I better off going to Aberdeen then Edinburgh then Glasgow.

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[LoogaBarooga]

Balmossie to Golf Street.

 

[Esker-pades]

Balmossie to Golf Street.

Got that one!

 

[DH1Commuter]

University to Selly Oak - a pleasant walk along the canal by day, less so at night. I'd imagine a few from the university/hospital would do this.

 

[Sprinter107]

University to Selly Oak - a pleasant walk along the canal by day, less so at night. I'd imagine a few from the university/hospital would do this.

Its a popular traffic flow. I get asked for it reasonably often. Personally, od take the pleasant walk along the canal. All of 10 minutes or so. Its quite busy with walkers and cyclists too.

 

[noddingdonkey]

Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf can't sell too many?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Pontefract Monkhill - Pontefract Tanshelf can't sell too many?

Only a two minute journey, but a regular hourly service, so probably not zero sales.

 

[Busaholic]

In South East London Sundridge Park to Bromley North and, from my youth, Eltham Well Hall to Eltham Park (no longer possible of course).

 

[Jamesrob637]

Devonport to Dockyard in Plymouth

Exeter Central to St James' Park

 

[glenbogle]

Golf Street to Carnoustie.

 

[bluespaul]

Lichfield Trent Valley to Lichfield City

 

[richard1976]

Llanrwst to North Llantwst

 

[RobertsN]

I may be repeating myself here, Mods, please delete if inappropriate:

Claverdon to Bearley.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Llanrwst to North Llantwst

I bet an enthusiast does that from time to time.

 

[Haywain]

Lichfield Trent Valley to Lichfield City

No chance of that, dozens of tickets bought for that journey for test purposes (it's conveniently cheap).

 

[Bletchleyite]

No chance of that, dozens of tickets bought for that journey for test purposes (it's conveniently cheap).

And a stack of annual season tickets when that was the cheapest Gold Card.

It's also not an unlikely connection to the mainline, where someone has bought a separate Advance from there.

 

[ABB125]

No chance of that, dozens of tickets bought for that journey for test purposes (it's conveniently cheap).

"test purposes"?