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Title: Transport for Wales passenger numbers soar as cancellations decline. Post by: johnneyw on October 17, 2024, 11:28:53 Wales online reports a significant quarterly rise in passenger figures which is being attributed, in part at least, to new trains, fewer cancellations and events at the Principality Stadium.
Article link below: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/transport-wales-passengers-soar-cancellations-30160880 Title: Re: Transport for Wales passenger numbers soar as cancellations decline. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 17, 2024, 11:51:29 Wow! So newer trains and fewer cancellations does actually attract more rail passengers! Who'd have thought it? ???
Title: Re: Transport for Wales passenger numbers soar as cancellations decline. Post by: Mark A on October 17, 2024, 11:58:18 As does better timekeeping, which probably points to how Westbury's platform 4 would pay for itself. The 1980s hamstrung a double track railway with single track section through a station and for obvious reasons there can't be many other examples where that's been done anywhere else in the UK.
Mark Title: Re: Transport for Wales passenger numbers soar as cancellations decline. Post by: grahame on October 17, 2024, 12:32:07 As does better timekeeping, which probably points to how Westbury's platform 4 would pay for itself. The 1980s hamstrung a double track railway with single track section through a station and for obvious reasons there can't be many other examples where that's been done anywhere else in the UK. Mark Malton springs to mind ... and there IS some logic in doing it to save on the cost of a footbridge with slopes, lift and second platform. 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 |