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Title: Sundays - increased train services Post by: grahame on March 29, 2014, 14:31:39 http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/train-shake-up-leads-to-big-rise-in-oban-services-157668n.23821043?
Quote THE number of weekday trains between Oban and Glasgow will double under timetable changes announced by ScotRail. Aberdeen to Glasgow Sunday services will also increase from every two hours to every hour. A new service will also be introduced between Ayr and Edinburgh, which will go via Glasgow Central Station. A new Sunday service for Anniesland via Maryhill is also scheduled, and Glasgow's Anderston station will open on Sundays. Steve Montgomery, managing director of ScotRail, said: "We are seeing strong demand for Sunday services." I can't say I'm surprised ... There are additional several additional Sunday trains running in our area too from 18th May - some of which run every summer. Typically they've finished in September, but there may be merit in some of them running year round. I'm very conscious that the 07:30 (High Summer Sundays) from Westbury to Swindon that ran for a trial period of 8 weeks in the summer of 2011 loaded as high as 68 passengers in the contraflow direction. Talking to those passengers, the majority were not summer seasonal and I would make an educates guess that an 07:30 Westbury to Swindon run every Sunday through the year would typically load to around 45 people (assumption - solitary change rather than part of anything bigger) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |