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Large numbers of people (Including some of the real experts at “Modern Railways”) seem to be very concerned about the ECML timetable alterations.
From a quick (very quick) peruse of both the tt itself & the aforementioned comments …
It seems that if you are travelling to-&-from London, there’s nothng significantly wrong with it, but – if you are using it as a part-service & – especially – if you want forward or backward connections to other pats of the country, that are not in “direct line” – then you might/will be in for a defintely worse experience.
Maybe not such a good move?
I have a subsidiary queston here, concerning any possible/actual advantage being given by ORR to some of the “Open Access” operators, especially “Lumo” – but I think that should be a separate discussion.
Greg T,
Indeed Modern Railways has been following the ECML saga. But it also points out the benefits and the fact that the considerable benefits would not work if they retained all the journey possibilities currently available.
Probably more worrying is that there are no obvious easy infrastructure interventions that would improve the situation and the government almost certainly won’t spend out further on the big expensive improvements that could be made. Completing the work at Darlington would probably help.
Stating the obvious, this is why we could really do with HS2 in its complete form but that is now a forlorn hope.