RobShipway
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It seems that in getting ready for the 10 coach 458/5's, that any station platforms that can only take up to 8 coaches is being extended up to 10 coach platforms, one of those being my local station Martins Heron.
I contacted Network Rail to find put whether the station platforms would be extended to have 12 coach trains rather than 10 coach trains and got told that they were only extending the platforms at the stations fro 10 coach trains and would be running a more frequent service.
Well, my understanding of the more frequent service is a train every 15 minutes. But, from details that I have seen today at Martins Heron railway station, the more trains only seems to be in the rush hours. Off peak, we still have the 20 - 30 minutes between trains timetable if we are lucky.
I contacted Network Rail to find put whether the station platforms would be extended to have 12 coach trains rather than 10 coach trains and got told that they were only extending the platforms at the stations fro 10 coach trains and would be running a more frequent service.
Well, my understanding of the more frequent service is a train every 15 minutes. But, from details that I have seen today at Martins Heron railway station, the more trains only seems to be in the rush hours. Off peak, we still have the 20 - 30 minutes between trains timetable if we are lucky.