On Jul 17, 10:06*am, John B wrote:

On Jul 17, 10:00*am, "David A Stocks" wrote:

"tim....." wrote:

Is there a capacity issue with stopping Southern trains at Clapham
Junction in the peaks? *SWT claim there aren't enough paths on
their side, so in the peaks everything long-ish distance goes through
non-stop. Not much point having an interchange if most of the
commuters can't use it.

AIUI both SWT and Southern don't like stopping longer distance trains
at CJ in the peaks to discourage their use for short hops.

It isn't just at CJ but SWT reduce stops at Surbiton and Wimbledon as
well. I don't know if it is still true but there used to be an hour gap in
the evening peak if you wanted a train from Wimbledon to Surbiton
(something which is about every 10 minutes for most of the day).

There aren't any Southern trains that *don't* stop at CLJ (cue someone to
find one!). Last December 2 (or maybe 3) Brighton services in each direction
transferred to Gatwick Express - who never stop there - much to the
irritation of a significant minority of Brighton commuters. I think the
rolling stock and paths released by this transfer have been used to provide
other services so there hasn't been any net reduction in the number of
services that call.

The Southern trains with red and white liveries, drinks trolleys, and
either strange sci-fi noses or surprisingly old traction motors, are
the ones that don't stop at CLJ...

No they aren't... yes they are... etc etc