"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Mr Thant wrote:

The RUS puts the cost of running all weeknight trains to Moorgate at
£170,000/year, mainly for extra staff to keep the line open.

Aha. Assuming passengers buy singles costing an average of 2.50 each
(Moorgate - Finsbury Park is 2.10, Moorgate - New Southgate is 3.10, so
this is ballpark right), that would need 68 000 passengers (ticket sales,
anyway) to break even. Over 52 weeks, that's 1308 people a week. That
sounds like quite a lot, but plausible.


But not as straightforward surely? What you are looking for is 68000 extra
passengers making new journies, a slightly more difficult requirement. What
proportion of your potential users are already travelling by another route,
or have already travelled earlier? And because the route is joint ticketed
with LU as far as Finsbury Park, FCC won't get all the revenue anyway...

Paul