Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
There is an article in MR this month in which David Horne as good as says that LNER is likely to keep compulsory reservations permanently. It doesn’t quite say it directly, but rather something like “compulsory reservations will be a part of LNER’s future”, and also alludes to a possibility of Avanti and XC doing the same.
Of course this has upsides and downsides. However I do have a big concern about something else he said, namely, paraphrased, that it would avoid overcrowding by pushing people onto other trains. This seems to me that they’d be more interested in hiding where necessary capacity isn’t provided rather than providing it. This would be an even greater issue with XC, and in disruption.
Does anyone have any thoughts (or even inside insights) into this?
Of course this has upsides and downsides. However I do have a big concern about something else he said, namely, paraphrased, that it would avoid overcrowding by pushing people onto other trains. This seems to me that they’d be more interested in hiding where necessary capacity isn’t provided rather than providing it. This would be an even greater issue with XC, and in disruption.
Does anyone have any thoughts (or even inside insights) into this?