no trains run straight through from Paignton-Plymouth

[thehstman]

Why dont no Cross Country of First great western Services work a service straight through from Paignton through to plymouth.
why not ??
the calling points would be
Paignton
Torquay
Torre
Newton Abbot
Totnes
Ivybridge
and
Plymouth

 

[Dave R]

I couldn't see xc running that service, it would be a FGW local DMU. and im sure people could make a change at Newton Abbot unless the times between trains are bad. A service would probably run if there was sufficient demand

 

[SWT Driver]

I have seen FGW do it, but ONLY in times of service disruption or when train faults occur.

As Dave R has stated it's a simple cross platform connection (most of the time) anyway & I'd doubt there's sufficient demand to warrant a through train.

 

[quarella]

For at least one timetable there was a Cross Country service that went to Plymouth via Paignton. I can't remember where it started or what time it ran.

 

[dk1]

Virgin XC used to run a service through to Plymouth via Torbay just before Voyagers appeared. It used to run i think from Newcastle & called at Newton Abbot approx 18.10 (where passengers for Totnes, Plymouth & Cornwall where told to change into the following 1820ish departure) & then the service called Torquay, Paignton, Newton Abbot & Plymouth. It was HST operated.

Wales & West then Wessex had some workings such as Par to Paignton mainly for balancing purposes. Whenever i use the Torbay branch there are often healthy connecting passengers for Plymouth & beyond, but as said it is an easy change & the bulk are going towards Exeter.

 

[mrcheek]

There used to be a Wessex service that did this route. But I think it was held at Newton Abbot for something like half an hour

 

[Max]

I've travelled on an evening FGW service out of Torquay before that terminated at Newton Abbot. It was operated by a HST and then ran ECS through to Plymouth. There probably would have been a reasonable case for this to run through into Plymouth station as a fair number of people along with ourselves were travelling on to Plymouth.

 

[Failed Unit]

Virgin XC used to run a service through to Plymouth via Torbay just before Voyagers appeared. It used to run i think from Newcastle & called at Newton Abbot approx 18.10 (where passengers for Totnes, Plymouth & Cornwall where told to change into the following 1820ish departure) & then the service called Torquay, Paignton, Newton Abbot & Plymouth. It was HST operated.

Yep it was a stock positioning move as it would have gone to plymouth ECS so they thought they could get a bigger share of the ORCAT's

It ended when the daigram was changed so the train went to Paington then returned North straight away.

 

[devon_metro]

I've travelled on an evening FGW service out of Torquay before that terminated at Newton Abbot. It was operated by a HST and then ran ECS through to Plymouth. There probably would have been a reasonable case for this to run through into Plymouth station as a fair number of people along with ourselves were travelling on to Plymouth.

It goes to Laira as 5A65 21+58 Newton Abbot - Laira TMD

Considering there is a Voyager at 2203 there isn't a massive demand.