How do people actually find their London Midland service to the capital, does the extended time it takes, put you off using the service, or does it make you travel by other modes of transport, or even changing at Birmingham?
I was thinking about Tamworth the other Day and the amount of services it has lost since Arriva took over XC. I wonder if it was better served by Virgin on the WC and also its own XC as this then provided competition to MML and GNER at the time for destinations such as Derby, Sheffield and Leeds. Or was this all a consequence of trying to speed up the WCML and XC operations?
Fares did exist on tribute at the start of 2000 for Virgin Value tickets from London to Leeds and other places in the area, but of course there was no direct Virgin services, so the only way for these to be valid would have been a change at Tamworth or New Street.
How do people actually find their London Midland service to the capital, does the extended time it takes, put you off using the service, or does it make you travel by other modes of transport, or even changing at Birmingham?
As for the directions used by Eagle I do not understand why people say that Low Level goes east/west and High Level goes north/south. I do know how the station is actually situated but trains from London to Stafford are northbound trains and Birmingham to Derby are eastbound trains.
Because most railway enthusiasts are obsessively pedantic?So if a train is reported as northbound through say Rugby, Nuneaton, Stafford why should it be reported as going westbound at Tamworth when the whole train journey is northbound?
Because most railway enthusiasts are obsessively pedantic?
MARK
....which used to confuse the hell out of me as a child.
Because most railway enthusiasts are obsessively pedantic?
MARK