Requeststop
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When I joined RailfourmsUK I considered my ID on this site and I took the name "Requeststop" as I was so peed off at my home station Lelant being turned into a request stop because of the goddamned awful concrete monstrosity at the Saltings and the Park and Ride fiasco to St Ives.
But hooray, very soon, Lelant is to loose its request stop status and to become once again a full bodied, look me in the eye, regular stopping station, in which passengers will no longer have to signal to the train driver that I want the train to stop at the platform, or ask the guard/conductor to tell the driver that I want the train to stop to disembark from the train.
Oh how I wish that time and distance would mean that I could be the last to request the train to stop at Lelant and next morning to be the first to just stand at the platform and wait for the train to stop just for me. Sadly it will not be so, but I do hope some bighearted people will organize something for the occasion of the last call as a request stop. It could be fun, with the incentive of a couple of pints up the Hill at The Badger beforehand.
So; Are there other stations that have lost their request stop status? Did passenger numbers increase when the status was dropped? I'd be very interested to know.
But hooray, very soon, Lelant is to loose its request stop status and to become once again a full bodied, look me in the eye, regular stopping station, in which passengers will no longer have to signal to the train driver that I want the train to stop at the platform, or ask the guard/conductor to tell the driver that I want the train to stop to disembark from the train.
Oh how I wish that time and distance would mean that I could be the last to request the train to stop at Lelant and next morning to be the first to just stand at the platform and wait for the train to stop just for me. Sadly it will not be so, but I do hope some bighearted people will organize something for the occasion of the last call as a request stop. It could be fun, with the incentive of a couple of pints up the Hill at The Badger beforehand.
So; Are there other stations that have lost their request stop status? Did passenger numbers increase when the status was dropped? I'd be very interested to know.