On 29/05/2015 16:04, Recliner wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
On 29/05/2015 13:18, eastender wrote:
In today's Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...tfl-overground

I'm in little doubt these transfers will be success stories - the
to-be-Crossrail Shenfield route is inevitable, but I'm thinking
particularly of the West Anglia metro routes.

It might not be quite the 'immediate overnight success story' that the
NLL transfer was - I think in significant part the immediate passenger
figure jump on the NLL was down to lots of existing users actually
starting to pay their fares! But since then the numbers have of course
continued to rise considerably.

Good luck to TfL Rail, LOROL and MTR Crossrail.

Many of the same factors should apply: much better revenue protection,
safer stations encouraging more off-peak travel, cleaner (if not yet newer)
trains more inviting, etc.


Agreed. My feeling is that it might take a bit longer for (real)
patronage to grow (thinking more of the WA routes here). Despite -
rather than because of - Silverlink and their minimal efforts (arguably
in large part structural), the NLL - and the WLL - were increasingly
popular routes before the LO takeover. People were using it despite the
wholly decrepit nature of it all.