On 16 Oct, 23:59, asdf wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:49:22 +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:
I was reading in the Evening Standard that on top of the increased prices
from January 2010 they are also reducing off peak services. Does anyone have
anymore details of reduced off peak services?

No - nothing has been determined. If you read the press release it says

"and some limited bus service reductions, and minor reductions in
service on a few sections of the Tube, to reflect changes in passenger
demand."

Note that this does not refer to off peak services as you have mentioned
in your post. It says where there have been "changes in demand". That
does not even mean demand has to have fallen in order for there to be a
change. This is all very carefully worded if you work through it slowly.

It should also be borne in mind that it will be difficult to make too
many cuts to the outer reaches as depots are often at the ends of lines
(e.g Ruislip and Hainault on the Central).

How does that work? I don't see how e.g. the presence of the depot at
Ruislip prevents some daytime services being cut back from West
Ruislip to White City - the trains just reverse in the platform
without going into the depot.

Presumably it's more to do with driver depots (or the places where
drivers can hang their stuff and start and finish work) which may
largely be the same places as train depots?

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some services cut back to
Loughton at that end, which would fit in with where depots are anyway.