"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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Here is the text of a postcard leaflet campaign being launched tomorrow
morning at Watford Junction:
big snip
Save our rail service
Watford - Brighton"
Comments?

My comment is that they obviously ignored the times when there are major
exhibitions on at Earls Court and Olympia when they did their passenger
surveys. When I have been to, for example, the Ideal Home exhibition at EC
the number of passengers from South of Clapham Junction was very high.
Losing the link will be a very retrograde step, and only the SRA could
have
been so stupid.
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I used this service on Thursday to go from Harrow & Wealdstone to West
Brompton for an exhibition at Earls Court. A lot of people got on the train
but it does run very slowly before Willesden Junction. This is probably
because it has to cross over the WCML. During half an hour I must have seen
at least six Pendolinos whistling to and fro and I suppose the once-per-hour
Watford-Brighton service just gets in their way !!
I was going to catch the 15.09 train back but it was cancelled and there
were a lot of people from both Earls Court and Olympia, who had to join the
Silverlink train which turned up instead and terminated at Willesden
Junction and then catch a slow train onwards to Watford.
This service has been an absolute boon to us whenever we have wanted to get
to Gatwick and the new stock has been very welcome.
Cheerz,
Baz