tbtc
Veteran Member
I'm guessing their aren't huge numbers of passengers at Chathill
True.
Assuming that nobody uses the morning arrival or the tea time departure (i.e. the only passengers using it are on the morning service to Newcastle and the tea time arrival from Newcastle) then those 2,642 passengers are 1,321 departures a year.
1,321 departures a year is 25.4 passengers a week. Over the six days that Chathill has a service, that works out at just over four passengers per service.
Maybe there are better things to use a Voyager on?
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And the Northern trains continue ECS to Belford anyway as it's the only reversing opportunity between Alnmouth and Berwick.
True - operational convenience.
The Northumberland commuter service used to run to/from Berwick, but this stopped around privatisation, presumably few Berwick passengers would use such a slow service (compared to the non-stop services that the town has to/from Newcastle)