The Prisoner
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- 22 Aug 2012
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Shame that the proposals don't include an extension to Chester on the first 2 and last 2 (the diagrams which start or end their day in Wrexham). Chester suffers badly from a lack of proper services through to the West Midlands and relies pretty heavily on either the 2 hourly TFW via Shrewsbury or running via Crewe which is rather expensive. Chester to London is a route which seems to be rather busy as well at the minute and Avantis reliability on the line and constant dilly dallying with removing Chester services from the timetable doesn't help to get people onto trains.
Doubt there is capacity due to the Wrexham - Rossett section of that line still being single to extend to Chester.
I live in Chester and would welcome better services to the West Midlands, but as this proposed service avoids Birmingham New Street it's missing the most important stop, and on the outline timings it's no quicker than current services anyway.
Completely agree on Avanti. Literally every other journey being cancelled again - it's unusable as a service.
Can Wrexham support five trains a day to London? It couldn't before, and even their document seems to have been seduced by Ryan Reynolds. Their document says the population of Wrexham is 135k, but that is the Borough, which extends out to the likes of Llangollen - Wrexham City itself is only around 45k. Hope it works for them as the place is on the up, but the business plan seems optimistic.