On Nov 5, 11:23*am, Neil Williams wrote:
On Nov 5, 12:10*pm, Andy wrote:

The line has a mixture of uses. During the peak there is a high
percentage of commuters who travel onto Euston whilst off-peak there
is currently little demand for through journeys. An hourly service
would not be good for the peak commuters, as there is currently a
42-43 min frequency until 10am.

I'm never quite sure if a hotch-potch frequency like that is actually
helpful. *Hourly clockface is arguably more useful, because it's more
memorable and connects with things better. *Few people, after all,
"turn up and go" for a frequency like that. *It's once you go below
hourly that the "hotch potch" best-possible-with-one-unit frequencies
may be best.


It's helpful in the peak, when times can be matched to people wanting
an early, intermediate or late arrival into London. When class 313s
were used, with a quick turn around, a forty minute frequency was
possible, but the class 321s seem to be slower off the mark. A forty
minute frequency equates to three trains every two hours and when I
lived on the line, times were easy to remember as, for example, 21
past the odd hours and 01/41 past the even hours giving a pseudo-
clockface pattern.

The trouble is that the press might see it differently.

Neil