In message
, at
05:58:30 on Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Paul Oter
remarked:
As other have mentioned, in 2006 a DfT report once named the 0802
Cambridge to Liverpool Street train (which no longer runs) as the
busest in the country. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4830370.stm
However I used to travel on that exact train on numerous occasions and
so know that this was nonsense. Apparently the researchers visited on
an unusual day when a preceding service had been cancelled.

The train I was referring to (2nd most crowded, not most crowded) is the
7.18 from Cambridge in 2007, and it would be extraordinary for the ToC
to trot out the same excuse two years running.
--
Roland Perry