Virgin happy with Shrewsbury loadings

[Bald Rick]

The Shrewsbury service would be better off continuing to Chester that way a more frequent service could be offered to/from London and aswell and Chester will still keep its hourly service - 1 train at 2 hourly intervals via Crewe, the other via Shrewsbury/Telford and Birmingham.

Except the via Brum train would be overtaken by the via Crewe train even though it started an hour later. The good folk of Chester would not be amused.

 

[Gareth Marston]

Quite a premium. There are Route: Via Birmingham and Route: Via High Wycombe tickets which each offer better value than the very expensive Any Permitted which allows via Crewe - and also the fastest journeys changing at Wolverhampton and Stafford. I think most people ignore the ATW & LM and Warminster-Salisbury routed tickets for being rather too slow.
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It's skewed somewhat by the existence of trains with further destinations (Manchester and Liverpool respectively) that are non-stop all the way from Euston to Crewe and Stafford. Having said that the Wrexham service does stop to pick up at MK and then again at Nuneaton!

There's quite a range of fares & routes from Shrewsbury to London.

 

[Jordy]

Discussion about the pronunciation of Shrewsbury (etc) has been split to http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2080974#post2080974