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« on: October 17, 2024, 11:28:53 »
Wales online reports a significant quarterly rise in passenger figures which is being attributed, in part at least, to new trains, fewer cancellations and events at the Principality Stadium.
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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/transport-wales-passengers-soar-cancellations-30160880
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2024, 11:51:29 »
Wow!  So newer trains and fewer cancellations does actually attract more rail passengers!  Who'd have thought it?  Huh
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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2024, 11:58:18 »
As does better timekeeping, which probably points to how Westbury's platform 4 would pay for itself. The 1980s hamstrung a double track railway with single track section through a station and for obvious reasons there can't be many other examples where that's been done anywhere else in the UK▸ (United Kingdom).
 
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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2024, 12:32:07 »
Quote from: Mark A on October 17, 2024, 11:58:18
As does better timekeeping, which probably points to how Westbury's platform 4 would pay for itself. The 1980s hamstrung a double track railway with single track section through a station and for obvious reasons there can't be many other examples where that's been done anywhere else in the UK▸ (United Kingdom).
 
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Malton springs to mind ... and there IS some logic in doing it to save on the cost of a footbridge with slopes, lift and second platform. 
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