Reepham Lincs.
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LNER have published the new timetable with the long awaited and promised direct services from Lincoln Central to Kings Cross.
Unfortunately there's no actual start date for the services, but they are in the timetable, so it's going to happen...fingers crossed. The current one train each way remains unchanged, the new services are extensions to the KGX-NNG services.
Unfortunately the proposed services don't really lend themselves to being that well used. A day out in London from Lincoln still means using the 07:30 as there's almost a four hour gap until the next direct service arriving in KGX well after 13:00. Then its more or less every two hours until the last leaving LCN at 17:14. Coming north is much the same, the first arrival from KGX doesn't arrive until 12:04, then it's two hourly until the last at 19:06
Although the proposed services are Monday - Saturday, there's no change at all on a Sunday, with the single KGX-LCN at 19:06.
While these services are very welcome and needed, (Lincoln having a population of over 100,000) a more even spread through the day would be much better and I'm sure lead to much more patronage.
https://www.lner.co.uk/globalassets/lner-rebrand/pdfs/lner_tt_may-dec19_web.pdf
Unfortunately there's no actual start date for the services, but they are in the timetable, so it's going to happen...fingers crossed. The current one train each way remains unchanged, the new services are extensions to the KGX-NNG services.
Unfortunately the proposed services don't really lend themselves to being that well used. A day out in London from Lincoln still means using the 07:30 as there's almost a four hour gap until the next direct service arriving in KGX well after 13:00. Then its more or less every two hours until the last leaving LCN at 17:14. Coming north is much the same, the first arrival from KGX doesn't arrive until 12:04, then it's two hourly until the last at 19:06
Although the proposed services are Monday - Saturday, there's no change at all on a Sunday, with the single KGX-LCN at 19:06.
While these services are very welcome and needed, (Lincoln having a population of over 100,000) a more even spread through the day would be much better and I'm sure lead to much more patronage.
https://www.lner.co.uk/globalassets/lner-rebrand/pdfs/lner_tt_may-dec19_web.pdf
