Mcr Warrior
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Which train services to/from UK ferry terminals still attract (in normal circumstances) a decent amount of passenger traffic, and which, by contrast, are scarcely still worth running?
Under 10,000 rail passengers a year according to latest available statistics, but there again, Heysham Port station does, normally, only receive the one service per day.Does Heysham still get a decent amount of passenger traffic.
Don't see why not. I've previously got the Isle of Wight ferry from Southampton after a rail journey to Southampton Central. Bit of a schlep from the railway station to the ferry terminal, but I wasn't the only person making the transfer.Can we count Southampton?
Can we count Southampton?
Don't see why not. I've previously got the Isle of Wight ferry from Southampton after a rail journey to Southampton Central. Bit of a schlep from the railway station to the ferry terminal, but I wasn't the only person making the transfer.
Under 10,000 rail passengers a year according to latest available statistics, but there again, Heysham Port station does, normally, only receive the one service per day.
Why on earth would you do that? It's not only flatter, but slightly more direct to stay down the hill.Quite a stretch from Central up the hill and down the hill again
The shuttle (every 30 minutes - designed to connect with the half-hourly ferry to West Cowes) is free for Red Funnel ticket holders, or those with through train tickets involving the ferry.although last time I was there was a relatively cheap bus (£1 even maybe?).
Originally had coastal ferry terminals in mind, but why not?Are we including the Thames River piers in this?
Why on earth would you do that? It's not only flatter, but slightly more direct to stay down the hill.
Other than "Not the nicest walk either" differences - going through the in-town out-of-town retail park is even worse than the back of everything along Portland Terrace.
The shuttle (every 30 minutes - designed to connect with the half-hourly ferry to West Cowes) is free for Red Funnel ticket holders, or those with through train tickets involving the ferry.
Though if not, it's £2 - which is obscene for the distance of just over a mile (but slightly cheaper than the £2.20 flat fare on Bluestar within Southampton).
I'm sure you can get rail sail tickets from any GA station to any NS Dutch station including the ferry from Harwich?Surely it's just Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde Pier Head that provides through rail to ferry foot passenger traffic these days? There are many services (under normal circumstances), many through fares, and it's within easy reach of London and other sizeable origin / destination markets in the south east. Ryde Pier Head had 155,000 interchanges in 2018/19 (latest data on ORR website), plus also 204,000 station entries / exits (most of whom must surely have been either travelling onwards by train on IoW, or arrived by train at Portsmouth Harbour - you can't get a rail fare for the ferry only (it wouldn't be in the ORR's data). So that is perhaps 300,000 a year, or 600 a day (roughly).
Other rail-served locations (such as Lymington Pier) will have far fewer passengers.
Starcross counts then for the ferry to Exmouth, I presume?Originally had coastal ferry terminals in mind, but why not?
Don't see why not. I've previously got the Isle of Wight ferry from Southampton after a rail journey to Southampton Central. Bit of a schlep from the railway station to the ferry terminal, but I wasn't the only person making the transfer.
As the OP didn't specify national rail services, almost all of the steam railway passengers arriving in Kingswear transfer to the ferry to Dartmouth.
38 a day according to ORR. And that might be double counting entries and exits.Most (if not all) passengers at Fishguard Harbour will be transfering to the ferry