Leicester rail users 'most underserved' in Britain, survey suggests

[edwin_m]

Would be impossible now as the track layout at Nuneaton changed.

I think it is possible in theory by running through and reversing on the site of the old Abbey Street station, though it may not be signalled for passenger moves. But I don't think Network Rail would want it to happen.

I agree this was a major loss, leaving Coventry-Nuneaton as an hourly shuttle of little use to most people. The best we can hope for is that the D-train conversion is successful and a second one then appears on the route, which would give better connections at Nuneaton.

 

[anti-pacer]

Don't the people who live in Syston and (South) Wigston consider themselves living in Leicester? When I lived in Wigston I never considered it anything but a part of Leicester.

I lived in Syston from 2008-10 and despite being in "Charnwood Borough", I considered it to be a suburb of Leicester.

 

[thenorthern]

Really? You can say categorically there would be no new stations? Have you seen final plans for the project?

There would be new stations yes I am sure at places such as Coalville and Ashby but would there be one in Leicester?

 

[Doctor Fegg]

Studies into reopening Leicester-Burton have proposed new stations at Bede Island and Leicester Forest East, and even one in between, so: yes, very possibly.

 

[Deerfold]

The City of London was found to top a list of the highest concentration of stations per population, with one for just 1,460 residents.

Of course the city of London has around 7000 residents do that's 5 stations. Now they could try dividing it into the 300000 daily commuters into the city.

 

[Bald Rick]

The long-planned last-minute money-saving move to sever the Nottingham-Leicester-Coventry service at Nuneaton during the rebuild was outrageous. A very short-sighted decision, ruining a service on a very important local corridor that far from cutting, should have been developed.

I assume the costs of re-instatement now would make it a no-goer.

But it saved more money than keeping the link would have made in decades.
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Reading is in the South East of England region and sorry to be pedantic but Reading isn't a city its a town.



Most I have is Birmingham and St. Albans which both have 8 trains per hour.

As a resident of St Albans, I must have missed those Intercity quality trains calling.

And sorry to be pedantic, but Birmingham New Street has only 3 InterCity Standard trains an hour..

 

[Busaholic]

Of course the city of London has around 7000 residents do that's 5 stations. Now they could try dividing it into the 300000 daily commuters into the city.

Must be a joy to commute from the City of London to Chelmsford, for instance. All those trains with plenty of available seats.

 

[Robertj21a]

Must be a joy to commute from the City of London to Chelmsford, for instance. All those trains with plenty of available seats.

Not if you're the leader of the Labour Party.....

 

[RichmondCommu]

Indeed. I don't think you can just divide the population by the number of stations and get a meaningful figure.

Just up the A6, Derby has 4 stations (if you count Duffield), but only one of those has services useful to the majority of people in the city.

That's the first time I've ever known anyone try to suggest that Duffield is part of Derby as it most certainly isn't!

 

[ivanhoe]

But it saved more money than keeping the link would have made in decades.
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You're having a laugh aren't you? Save money. They blew billions on the upgrade and the promised PUG2 underpass at Nuneaton was so easy to cancel given the Railtrack/NR cock ups in respect of Project Management. Breweries and partying come to mind just thinking of it.

 

[najaB]

You're having a laugh aren't you? Save money. They blew billions on the upgrade...

Hyperbole much? Try £150 million.

 

[thenorthern]

Looking at the list of places I would say Northampton has the worst deal with lack of stations as there isn't one for many many miles outside the town.

That's the first time I've ever known anyone try to suggest that Duffield is part of Derby as it most certainly isn't!

Duffield is classed as part of the Derby urban area but its not withing the City of Derby thats for sure.

 

[RichmondCommu]

Duffield is classed as part of the Derby urban area but its not withing the City of Derby thats for sure.

Well I never did. Do you have a link for this?

 

[edwin_m]

Your mapping site of choice will show that the MML crosses the Derby city boundary between Alfreton Road and the A61. Although the boundary follows the Derwent and is within a couple of hundred metres of the line until Little Eaton, the nearest part of Duffield is at least 1km from the Derby boundary.

 

[backontrack]

Studies into reopening Leicester-Burton have proposed new stations at Bede Island and Leicester Forest East, and even one in between, so: yes, very possibly.

And there'll also probably be one at Kirby Muxloe just to the west of Forest East.

 

[thenorthern]

Just a thought why isn't Londonderry included as it is has a fairly large metropolitan area with quite a large population with just one station served every two hours.

I know its not in the United Kingdom but I found it strange the other day that Jerusalem only has two station on one line despite the city has 850,000 people living there.

 

[Philip Elliott]

The original Ivanhoe proposal had stations at Bede Island, Rancliffe Crescent & New Parks - all within the city boundary.

 

[johnnychips]

Just a thought why isn't Londonderry included as it is has a fairly large metropolitan area with quite a large population with just one station served every two hours.

I know its not in the United Kingdom but I found it strange the other day that Jerusalem only has two station on one line despite the city has 850,000 people living there.

I thought that you were going to mean that Londonderry wasn't in the UK for a moment and was just about to put my pedant hat on...

 

[najaB]

I thought that you were going to mean that Londonderry wasn't in the UK for a moment and was just about to put my pedant hat on...

You and me both!

 

[edwin_m]

I thought that you were going to mean that Londonderry wasn't in the UK for a moment and was just about to put my pedant hat on...

I was trying to work out what district of Leicester it was.

 

[70014IronDuke]

I was trying to work out what district of Leicester it was.

Perhaps next to Scraptoft?

At least that sounds a dodgy area.

(In fact, of course, it's quite gentrified IIRC. And it had a Teachers' Training College to boot. That was VERY gentrified )

Mind, wasn't there, in days of yore, a station out that way on the GN joint?
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Just a thought why isn't Londonderry included as it is has a fairly large metropolitan area with quite a large population with just one station served every two hours.

I know its not in the United Kingdom but I found it strange the other day that Jerusalem only has two station on one line despite the city has 850,000 people living there.

Assuming you mean Jerusalem in Israel/Palestine - while that city and its transport systems may well be worthy of discussion - dragging it into a thread on Leicester and UK cities is rather disingenuous, to say the least. It's history, society(ies), commerce patterns and topography are just so totally different as to be non-comparable.

 

[DevonshireRail]

Leicester is served by South Wigston railway station depending on the definition used. If you are talking about the city council boundary then no, but if you use the Urban Subdivision boundary (which is arguably the proper definition of Leicester's boundary) then yes. Syston however is not part of Leicester by any definition.

 

[Robertj21a]

Leicester is served by South Wigston railway station depending on the definition used. If you are talking about the city council boundary then no, but if you use the Urban Subdivision boundary (which is arguably the proper definition of Leicester's boundary) then yes. Syston however is not part of Leicester by any definition.

I doubt that most people in the area would consider South Wigston to be any different to Syston. They are both well away from the city, in relatively self-contained communities.

 

[Roast Veg]

Despite having "only" four platforms, the XC trains only occupy half of platform 1, and the slow Nottinghams only half of platform 4, that's a whole platforms worth of space that's only used to help keep the London trains running to time and overnight stabling.

There are some improvements that need to be made to the network around Leicester, but the number of stations is not it. Realignment and additional tracks to the south would bring about a world of improvement.