Trivia: What sections of unelectrified line carry the most trains per hour?

[61653 HTAFC]

Huddersfield-Deighton?

The section between Huddersfield and Thornhill LNW Junction (just west of Ravensthorpe) has the same 7tph except for the section between Bradley Junction and Heaton Lodge Junction- where trains to Bradford and the Calder Valley branch off respectively. There's also the intermittent Grand Central services on the section through Mirfield.

 

[chiltern trev]

London Marylebone - Neasden. 17:00 to 18:00 has 13 down and 9 up trains.

Signalling headway is 3 minutes.

On a Wembley football evening, add 3 more each way.

 

[Eskimo]

Hull? Although some of its tph’s would head north on the triangle before passing the next main line station..

But there’d be Transpennine, Northern and Hull Trains.. occasional LNER?

 

[A S Leib]

Hull? Although some of its tph’s would head north on the triangle before passing the next main line station..

But there’d be Transpennine, Northern and Hull Trains.. occasional LNER?

If OP isn't counting it as the station throat, I think it's 4 hourly Northern service patterns (Bridlington to York, Scarborough to Sheffield, Hull to Halifax, Hull to Doncaster) for a total of 12 tph passing through in both directions combined, plus 2 tph TPE and 1 tph Hull Trains (counting ~1tp2h in each direction for the latter as that), so 15 tph / 7.5 tph in each direction excluding the daily LNER.

 

[Eskimo]

If OP isn't counting it as the station throat, I think it's 4 hourly Northern service patterns (Bridlington to York, Scarborough to Sheffield, Hull to Halifax, Hull to Doncaster) for a total of 12 tph passing through in both directions combined, plus 2 tph TPE and 1 tph Hull Trains (counting ~1tp2h in each direction for the latter as that), so 15 tph / 7.5 tph in each direction excluding the daily LNER.

If both the costal services reverse and continue onwards then we can call the limit as far as Gilberdyke then. Hull to Gilberdyke 7.5tph. Thanks for the late night calculations!

 

[Nottingham59]

Thank you to everybody who contributed to this thread.

I've edited the first post to reflect what seems to be the final consensus, and to say the list is now frozen and I won't be updating it further.

A very interesting discussion: gratifying to see that many of the busiest sections of unelectrified lines are due to be covered by TRU and MML electrification, and most of the rest could be addressed by extending existing schemes (Meadowhall, Filton, Bradford). Which leaves the Chiltern mainline as the main standout, and places like Hull and Exeter which look liike prime candidates for electrification islands for BEMUs.

Thanks again all.