"www.waspies.net" wrote in message
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Alan J. Flavell wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, asdf wrote:

Some have suggested that Chiltern should be allowed to charge a
premium to Met passengers. This perhaps could be achieved by
the Oyster system. If they were allowed to do that, perhaps
other national rail companies would be more in favour of Oyster
[...]
It would also be the end of interavailable ticketing, which
wouldn't be a good thing for the passenger.

Well, not entirely. Some other railway systems seem to manage to
define a base tariff (e.g for a season ticket), which can also be
used on premium trains by purchasing a one-off supplement per use.

I'm not sure how you'd tell an Oyster reader what your wishes were
in this regard, though.
I wonder if this went through and Chiltern reducing their serving of
TFL LU stations if there would still be priority given to Chiltern
trains on the track, if TFL LU want to make things difficult they
can and delay chiltern affecting their performance ratings.

Just a thought


Certainly a good point..... Do Chiltern have priority all "day" or is
it just during the peak hours ?

I realise it'll never happen, but one thing that I, and others, have
put forward before is that what is currently the Met line from
Rickmansworth, northwards be handed over to Network Rail & Chiltern,
so that they can run all services along that corridor, allowing the
Met line to concentrate their resources on the Watford line services.
Depending on capacity, Chiltern may have to stop some services at Moor
Park and, possibly, an hourly or half hourly Rickmansworth to Watford
service, to allow interchange between the two services.
This "sale" but TFL, would then give them more of the money they need
to link the Met into Watford Junction.