I've been surprised by the number of people who get off trains from Manchester at Wilmslow in the mornings, there are quite a few commuters to Wilmslow.
Oops! My error, wrong service
These posters were put up too early in Nottingham as the webpage they advertised wasn't ready and so were taken down again. However the webpage has now been up for a while and it is less than a week to go and the posters still haven't been put back up.
UPDATE
The DC has been 4tph for two years already, the 378s displaced were for 10tph NLL peaks.
I've not been in that part of the world in a while. Pandemic-aside, has the uplift to 4tph been successful? More ridership?
But if it was handed over to EMR you would have the opposite problem of no late trains to Sheffield as EMR has no train crew depot at Sheffield as far as I am aware but late trains to Lincoln instead. A weakness of privatisation where the train crew / train depot is at one end of the route for any given operator.
If EMR operated the service any positional journeys to/from Nottingham depot could run directly from Sheffield via the Midland Mainline taking approx 45 minutes?
Depending how late on the other routes. Engineering Access also impacts why Northern can run later services to Sheffield but finish earlier towards Lincoln. If the railway wasn't privatised you could suggest that Lincoln depot (run by EMR) should run a later service from Sheffield to Lincoln but in the other direction covered by Sheffield Depot (Northern) from Lincoln to Sheffield.
I don’t think they were expecting much more ridership, just 4 tph better fits their usual definition of a normal service. In terms of carriages, as implied earlier it’s now 16 per hour rather than 15, I think if they were expecting significant extra demand they’d have carried on with 5 car trains…
In what way is one service to Scarborough no longer running "poor", for Sunday, offset against the significantly better journey times and extended day? Also it has been pointed out that the York service is not necessarily gone forever.
Where are you seeing this?
Plymouth really isnt a great place to change at the moment.
I assume you meant 30, not 3, because that's more like the actual number. You didn't really think there are only three through trains a day, did you?
I see, how interesting. As you point out, I suspect that the reality is that the working timetable offers the necessary provision so there should be no need to worry.
How is the Sunday timetable very poor? I'm sure the morning service is restricted by the two track railway south of Bedford so have to run in-between the GTR services until lunchtime which by mid afternoon the service level is the same as a weekday. As for Scarborough it has been dropped for a second York working but they have temporarily been dropped in this timetable. Hopefully they will run from December.
One minute won't be realistic but three I think is possible but tight. RTT has most arrivals from Crewe at xx19 but the EMR timetable has them at xx21. It has always been the case that a few extra mins has been added for arriving in Derby from Crewe.
Nice to see a return of a few Bristol - Waterloo direct services
I need to change at Plymouth later this month from a terminating Cross Country service onto a Penzance service with about 20 minutes so enough time to get from Platform 7 to 4 but I might change at Totnes (same platform) which would just be simpler!!
Just in the nick of time, too!
Thinking about it, in some situations it might be wiser for them to advertise changing at Totnes or somewhere similar rather than Plymouth for this reason.
The working timetable is what matters here.
