"Joe" wrote in message
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So when the doors open exactly how are you going to stop people on the
platform boarding the train or getting off?
Bouncers on the platform? Hold people at the gates? Staff manning every
door?

Actually many other TOCs like Virgin have done it in the past, and still
do
it. Trains will be announced as 'Not stopping'

In the morning and evening peaks there is now good reason to need to run
Chiltern services non-stop, at least between Amersham and Marylebone, to
achieve maximum revenue per passenger and to provide a reasonable travelling
environment to those passengers. Bear in mind that north of Amersham 100% of
the revenue goes to Chiltern, from the LUL stations only a proportion (fixed
by the annual passenger survey) goes into Chiltern's pockets. Therefore it
is in their interests to fill the train with non-LUL passengers at peak
times.

Unfortunately, Chiltern are required to provide as many services from each
station (including LUL stations) as they did pre-privatisation. There is no
capacity to run much in the way of additional services, so their hands are
tied and passengers travelling via the Metropolitan will have to continue to
put up with trains wedged full by LUL passengers (sometimes to the detriment
of full-fare passengers travelling to Chiltern destinations) unless the SRA
can be convinced that the current agreement is out of date and does not
benefit current passenger trends.