What fines? No railway operator an be fined for noise pollution they have a statutory defence.
As an aside, does the DfT even have the power to rip them off Grand Central without compo seeing as they're open access?
Clearly not while a binding contract is in place between the rolling stock leasing company and the open access operator but at the expiry of a lease it could be quite possible.
Hence why it is yet another business related reason that trumps crayonistic jigsaw puzzling of rolling stock across the network.
Was that an editorial in a reputable magazine, or on a letters page? I’d put 222s for Chiltern way down a very long list of options for all the reasons mentioned in these forums before, basically summed up as them being “a hammer to crack a nut”…
I seem to recall that Hull Train's 222s were too heavy to run at HST speeds between Selby and Temple Hirst Jnc but it could just be my memory playing up!
Yes I’m sure that’d do modal shift a whole world of good.
Treasury shrugs and asks whether it maximises revenue.
which makes more 10 people paying £15 or 7 people paying £20 ultimately to alot of people commuting they want the cheapest way to work that gets them there on time in a degree of comfort
You are just making up numbers!
my numbers are made up to keep things simple my point is is more people would buy a ticket if its cheap thus its great to say well they can use that other toc and line but if the cost shoots up no one actually will of course thats my opinion
More people doesn't mean more revenue if the price is cut too much.
thats great but most people do not appreciate having the cheap option taken away and forced to pay up to double the price the ideal solution would be 1 increase Chilterns cost slightly 2 decrease cost slightly on wcml 3 use more economical stock on chiltern services
The ideal solution for the passenger is not the same as the ideal solution for those paying the bills (which is indirectly the taxpayer of course)
There appear to be already increasing numbers going back to Bicester Village and i imagine that by 2024 this will be buoyant again. There is also a lot of Midlands to and from London traffic still, particularly off peak and weekends.
Isn't it still down to price competition for the long trip? And there are plenty of people around Solihull, Warwick and Leamington to go south; and in the Chilterns area around High Wycombe area going north for whom HS2 won't really suit...
That will depend on whether people decide to interchange at Bicester Village or Bletchley, neither of which are on a straight line from Winslow to London.
These are still the intermediate markets to which I referred. Chiltern should absolutely continue to connect these places with both Birmingham and London, but they have far less of a long-term need to connect Birmingham and London with eachother.
That depends on whether you look at it as a taxpayer/The Treasury or as a traveller hoping to get cheap tickets!
Not major numbers yes, but there will also be a bit of traffic between Chiltern stations such as High Wycombe and Milton Keynes
They were never meant to end at the May 2022 timetable. The discussion was that the DfT wanted them withdrawn after the end of the Commonwealth Games, which end at the start of August.
The issues with the 68+stock are:
