Trivia: Which is the most frequent service?

[AM9]

Couldn't you argue that doesn't count as some services go via Redhill and others don't?

Shenfield?

The Redhill route is effctively just the slow lines, - are there platforms at GTW and ECR that have both fast and slows stopping at them?
Don't some GA services stop at Shenfield?

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Also there's multiple platforms at both stations so will be less than e.g. a Crossrail/Elizabeth line service between any platform pair.

The Lizzy has been ruled out as it is TfL.

 

[mm333]

The 6 an hour (on the hours when HT run) between Hull and Brough is a high number outside London/TFL or a metropolitan county.

 

[Steddenm]

Roughly looking by TOC (whilst including all TOCs with more or less normal National Rail fares), 10:00-10:59 on a weekday

TfW Rail: Stockport – Manchester Piccadilly (14 tph), followed by Cardiff Central – Queen Street (12 tph)

Did you mean TfW 14tph between Stockport and Manchester?

 

[A S Leib]

Did you mean TfW 14tph between Stockport and Manchester?

I meant Stockport – Manchester Piccadilly having the most frequent combined service of which TfW services form a part.

 

[MontyP]

As a variation on the OP's question, what is the most frequent end-to-end service on the network? Some restrictions:
- I mean between starting point and termination (so Waterloo to Clapham J clearly doesn't count as all those services go elsewhere)
- the calling pattern has to be exactly the same on every service
- excluding Elizabeth Line
- excluding any simple shuttles with no intermediate stops

Some London Overground services are 5-6 per hour, I am struggling to think of anything more frequent? If LO is excluded, is there anything more frequent than 4 per hour?

 

[zwk500]

As a variation on the OP's question, what is the most frequent end-to-end service on the network? Some restrictions:
- I mean between starting point and termination (so Waterloo to Clapham J clearly doesn't count as all those services go elsewhere)
- the calling pattern has to be exactly the same on every service
- excluding Elizabeth Line
- excluding any simple shuttles with no intermediate stops

Some London Overground services are 5-6 per hour, I am struggling to think of anything more frequent? If LO is excluded, is there anything more frequent than 4 per hour?

Do T&W metro trains count, and if so do they exceed 6tph on the Durham coast to Sunderland?

 

[A S Leib]

Some London Overground services are 5-6 per hour, I am struggling to think of anything more frequent? If LO is excluded, is there anything more frequent than 4 per hour?

I think Merseyrail, Southeastern (Victoria to Orpington) and c2c (Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness) are currently the only non-TfL / metro TOCs running exactly the same service four times per hour, with nothing more frequently. I think Cardiff Bay used to be a shuttle five times per hour but you're excluding shuttles, and that SWR, Southern, or both had some 4 tph examples pre-Covid.