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.

Not just in the Peaks, I travelled on the 10 35 (or whatever it is) and it
was wedged, like normal, after Amersham

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can be convinced that the current agreement is out of date and does not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.

Which exactly is the problem. The removal of stops at Moor Park a few years
back made it slightly better, but it has got noticabley worce recently,
especially since the Congestion charge and the stupid signallers @
Marylebone who run a train in front of one that is about to leave and send a
4-car train into a platform that only has room for 2
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