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Re: BBC - Meeting over cuts to rail service

<nickw7coc@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6d28deae-d9f1-4b71-8ef8-9805ec1609ea@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Virgin Trains' decision to cut its off-peak services from Nuneaton
> into London could be taken to a judicial review.

More likely the DfT than Virgin.

> In a timetable due to start in December all fast trains from the
> Warwickshire town to London will stop after 0900.

Somewhat unfortunate wording - I thought their complaint was that the trains
*won't* stop.

> Nuneaton currently has at least one fast train per hour to London
> during the day. Passengers needing to reach London will have to go via
> Northampton.

No, they won't have to - though they can choose to.

The down off peak service will be as follows:

Euston dep xx03
Rugby arr xx49

(Change to the semi-fast which left Euston at ww46)

Rugby dep yy02
Nuneaton arr yy16

That's 97 miles in 73 minutes, or fractionally under 80 mph.

The up service is even better, with the xx02 from Nuneaton connecting at
Rugby (xx17/xx23) and reaching Euston at yy12 - 83 mph.

For those that can't be bothered to change, the semi-fast service via
Northampton is hardly bad.

Nuneaton (where?) needs to grow up and retrieve its scattered toys from
round the pram. There are plenty of towns - and more important ones than
Nuneaton - that would give their eye teeth for such a service.

And from VT's point of view, the new TT depends on the Pendolinos whizzing
up the fasts with the minimum of stops south of Colwich.

Regards

Jonathan

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