Southern East Croydon to Milton Keynes service issues

"Neil Williams" <wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk> wrote in message
news:48ebc8b7.785876143@news....
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:20:57 -0700 (PDT), Paul Weaver
> <usenet@isorox.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Virgin West Coast don't serve Wembley, or Olympia, have never done,
>>and will never do. I assume they are worried about a loss of MKC-
>>>London traffic, with people going with a cheaper MKC->Wembley/Olympia
>>and tubing in. I assume they think Harrow is too far away to be
>>bothered with, and London Midland already run services there anyway.
>
> And there is a cheaper LM-only ticket from MKC to EUS/R1256 off-peak.
> That's the competition, really.

I wonder if there will be a comparable SN ticket - it will be unfortunate if
passenger numbers are undermined by two GoVia run franchises not acting in
each others interests...

Paul

On 9 Oct, 03:17, darkprince66 <darkprince17031....uk> wrote:
> Having looked at the track access agreement, I rescind my earlier
> comment about it's usefulness. It stops at nearly every bloody lamp
> post along the way! Tring to Balham? Hmmm...

Some people want to travel from Tring to Balham. If you want to go to
Gatwick you need to change anyway, may as well be at Clapham if it
does save time. This service will get people for the Milton Keynes-
>Harrow corridor, the Bletchley -> Underground (at Shepherds Bush)
corridor, the WLL, and services in south london

On 9 Oct, 20:28, Paul Weaver <use...@isorox.co.uk> wrote:
> On 9 Oct, 03:17, darkprince66 <darkprince17031....uk> wrote:
>
> > Having looked at the track access agreement, I rescind my earlier
> > comment about it's usefulness. It stops at nearly every bloody lamp
> > post along the way! Tring to Balham? Hmmm...
>
> Some people want to travel from Tring to Balham. If you want to go to
> Gatwick you need to change anyway, may as well be at Clapham if it
> does save time. This service will get people for the Milton Keynes->Harrow corridor, the Bletchley -> Underground (at Shepherds Bush)
>
> corridor, the WLL, and services in south london

I knew the moment I hit send that someone would..... ;-)

Rich