I think once Cross-Country can be convinced that the Voyagers between Birmingham and the South West should stop there you will see a big jump in passenger numbers.
Do you use XC services between Birmingham and Bristol much? They have been overloaded for years now. That is not going to charge any time soon.
And doesn't take into account the fact that there is pent up demand for a fast InterCity service from Worcester to Birmingham, Cheltenham and Bristol.
I find it odd that there is an assumption of a preference for Intercity services to London, over the more local large employment centres in Birmingham etc.
Maybe if the Camp Hill lines re-open to link to Moor Street, GWR could then run an hourly IET service from Birmingham to Plymouth to rival Cross-Country's monopoly.
People in Worcester generally want to go to Birmingham - which is a already linked with Worcester by two routes with frequent trains and plans to further boost frequencies as well - or in the direction of Oxford and London.
A better service to and from the south would be useful but that would more usefully be done by improving the GWR service from Bristol and that company would not be allowed to run an 'intercity' service between Birmingham and Plymouth, even if did go into Worcester, as it would never in million years pass the 'not primarily abstractive' test.
Any extra capacity opened up at Moor Street by running passenger trains on the Camp Hill line and building curves at Bordesley will be needed for additional regional services in the Midlands.
Cross Country needed more stock 10 years ago. Unfortunately transport planning has become toxified by North vs South identity politics while rakes of mk3s are quietly despatched for scrap.
Shocking, 40-odd-year-old rolling stock gets sent for scrap...
Just seen the parking season ticket prices.
Monthly - £95.00
Quarterly - £280.00
Annual - £1000.00
Ouch!
Ouch what? Let's try parking at a couple of other West Midlands region Parkways, shall we?
Chiltern charges at Warwick Parkway are:
Day rate (weekday peak) £9
Day rate (off-peak and weekends) £6
Monthly £132.90
Annual £1,388.70
Avanti charges at Birmingham International are:
Daily Mon-Fri: £12.00
Saturday: £9.00
Sunday: £9.00
Monthly: £132.00
Three monthly: £374.00
Annual: £1200.00
Day rates at Worcestershire Parkway are £5 (£4.50 using a mobile and Apcoa Connect) before 10am on weekdays and £3 the rest of the day and all day at weekends.
I hope this is successful but there must be concern about abstraction from other nearby stations including Shrub Hill and Pershore as well as all the extra road traffic. Also, there's now no chance of Ashchurch getting its long sought-after Birmingham service.
Of course there will be abstraction from Shrub Hill in particular (which has been known all along) - because the new station will be a whole lot easier to reach by road from much of the city and surrounding area than Shrub Hill (or Foregate Street) and has 500 car park spaces, not 120. It is hoped some people will now just drive to this station, rather than all the way from Worcestershire to Birmingham International or Warwick Parkway to get a train to London.
What do you mean about Ashchurch? Several XC services call from Monday to Saturday and what would be far more useful there would be an increase in the GWR service between Gloucester, Cheltenham and Worcester to run hourly and provide a robust service between them and Ashchurch, to get some traffic off the M5.