Larger stations may have longer platforms which can remove in in part use. Even if it were feasible, the cost of setting up all the barriers etc might outweigh the cost of the occasional taxi.
Unless part of a package of improvements with a timetable re-cast, speeding up a single line just mains waiting the equivalent time longer at the next loop.
But would Upper Crust at Sugar Loaf make any dough? They'd knead to increase the patronage dramatically at yeast, and have trains that run more oven.I'm guessing they're putting in an Upper Crust and a WHSmiths
At least they wouldn’t run out of sugar!
They're not installing a lift.
I think it would be the first one anywhere between Llanelli and Shrewsbury! It would probably do wonders for the usage figures though, the locals from miles around would come along to try it out.Waiting longer at a loop would be no bad thing if the booked time at the loop is too short for a reliable timetable (which was the case in the enhanced timetable I once made up for the Heart Of Wales). So I guess you're right that it would need a timetable recast; but speedups could make a major timetable improvement feasible which otherwise wouldn't be.
Indeed so, but I was responding to a post that claimed elimination of the Sugar Loaf stop would allow accelerated journeys. On its own it doesn't, except between stations where the train doesn't pass another one. I looked at the very same issues as part of a feasibility study a few years ago, and getting enough of a speedup to materially change the timetable was very difficult. A timetable with extra short workings at both ends of the route is easier because they don't have to join up all the way through and probably won't be passing more than one other train. The problems really start if a train has to pass more than one coming the other way at intermediate passing loops.
Good news! TfW have already said there'll be:
Which, from other sources I can't immediately recall, will be 5tpd, plus the existing early turnbacks.
