The current timetable has no trains from London to Bedford from 0101 to 0618 on a Sunday.
While a 24 hour service does operate Monday to Saturday, the lack of any trains early on a Sunday does mean it can be difficult for night revellers to return from a Saturday night out in London and equally makes travelling to/from London Luton Airport impossible for late night or early morning departures on a Sunday.
Is there any intention to introduce a true 24h/7 days a week service linking London and stations along the MML with Luton Airport ?
A typical timetable utilising 4 units/drivers would permit an hourly all stations service to Bedford and an hourly all stations service to Luton each departing St Pancras at 30 minute intervals (albeit with an hour interval between 0230 and 0330).
Overnight track maintenance work may prohibit use of platforms A and B for cross London transfer some of the year, but it should be possible to utilise high-level platforms 1-4 at St Pancras instead or indeed on occasions terminate services at Kentish Town where interchange is possible with Northern line night-tube services.
With MML being 4 track, it should be possible to operate this limited overnight service even if 2 of the tracks are closed for maintenance possession.
STP LUT BDM BDM LUT STP
01:00 01:50 02:20 02:30 03:00 03:50 Unit 1
01:30 02:20 02:30 03:20 Unit 2
02:00 02:50 03:20 03:30 04:00 04:50 Unit 3
02:30 03:20 03:30 04:20 Unit 4
03:30 04:20 04:30 05:20 Unit 2
04:00 04:50 05:20 05:30 05:00 06:50 Unit 1
04:30 05:20 05:30 06:20 Unit 4
05:00 05:50 06:20 06:30 07:00 07:50 Unit 3
While a 24 hour service does operate Monday to Saturday, the lack of any trains early on a Sunday does mean it can be difficult for night revellers to return from a Saturday night out in London and equally makes travelling to/from London Luton Airport impossible for late night or early morning departures on a Sunday.
Is there any intention to introduce a true 24h/7 days a week service linking London and stations along the MML with Luton Airport ?
A typical timetable utilising 4 units/drivers would permit an hourly all stations service to Bedford and an hourly all stations service to Luton each departing St Pancras at 30 minute intervals (albeit with an hour interval between 0230 and 0330).
Overnight track maintenance work may prohibit use of platforms A and B for cross London transfer some of the year, but it should be possible to utilise high-level platforms 1-4 at St Pancras instead or indeed on occasions terminate services at Kentish Town where interchange is possible with Northern line night-tube services.
With MML being 4 track, it should be possible to operate this limited overnight service even if 2 of the tracks are closed for maintenance possession.
STP LUT BDM BDM LUT STP
01:00 01:50 02:20 02:30 03:00 03:50 Unit 1
01:30 02:20 02:30 03:20 Unit 2
02:00 02:50 03:20 03:30 04:00 04:50 Unit 3
02:30 03:20 03:30 04:20 Unit 4
03:30 04:20 04:30 05:20 Unit 2
04:00 04:50 05:20 05:30 05:00 06:50 Unit 1
04:30 05:20 05:30 06:20 Unit 4
05:00 05:50 06:20 06:30 07:00 07:50 Unit 3