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They quote 7,500 users of the Sunday service as a reason for any regular service to be well used. I wonder how many pf those were visitors in, and thus wouldn't actually be regular users?
And surely they ought to be approaching the local LEP» (Local Enterprise Partnership - about) as it will be they who can obtain the money? What do they think?
And surely they ought to be approaching the local LEP» (Local Enterprise Partnership - about) as it will be they who can obtain the money? What do they think?
I know a lot of enthusiasts use the okehampton Sunday service, a look on the various Facebook groups verifies this. But then again maybe they are 5% of passengers at most
Every single train that ran was surveyed. However there were passengers that weren't because of time and busyness of some of the services.
Yes there were passengers from Exeter / Crediton etc that travelled to Okehampton - however that would happen with a regular service. We have a new industrial park being developed at the moment and have many businesses who have workers that live towards and in Exeter. But according to the data of the passengers questions it was a 2/3 1/3 split Okehampton area / Exeter area of where passengers lived.
The majority of people joining the train at Okehampton expressed a strong intent to use the service either to go to work, to shop or to travel elsewhere on the network.
Further to that 95% of the 500 people who were on the special train were from within 45 minutes travel time of Okehampton - which for our rural community, is a perfectly reasonable travel time.
While I accept there are some rail enthusiasts that use the sunday train, from my understanding of the data it is a reasonably small number.
While we are not suggesting a sunday train is the be all and end all for a regular service, those in the industry are happy to accept the data as an indicator of what could be achieved on the line when a regular service is restored.
