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How long before Highbury & Islington gets a rebuild - perhaps a direct link from the platforms to the tube instead of tramping up the stairs via the ticket hall.
Given the variable service on the Hertford loop, I wonder if potential passengers at Crews Hill are getting in their cars and going to Potters Bar instead (when things go wrong you can still get to Potters Bar via tube and bus).
Another three have interchanges with separate Underground or DLR stations, but presumably the figures for those stations are only for the TOC station.
Geezer, the Greenford branch is cut off from Paddington by pre-Crossrail trains from next month.
dg writes: Gosh, so it is.
Teesside Airport station is a fifteen minute walk from the airport terminal, with no transfer bus service.
A train from Darlington to Hartlepool calls at 1116 every Sunday, calling at 1236 on the return journey. There is then no other train for 166 hours.
Looking at the schedule for this coming Sunday, the first flight, at 10:05, will get to Amsterdam long before the train has called. The second flight is to Aberdeen at 17:05, but you'd get to the Granite City more quickly by staying on the train and changing at Darlington.
It's a pigs ear/dogs dinner etc,etc. At the least a raft over the top with decent facilities and waiting arrangements seemed so logical way back at the start of it all.
Now, it is a nightmare. Their "people-flow" management in the rush hour is risible.
They've left it too late now to make a decent fist of things.
dg writes: It's not the first time I've made that mistake... Thanks, and table now updated.
As in, not very famous.
Of course a bus ride to central London is still cheaper than a train ride, but the same thing applies to many many other stations, so it cannot really account for apparently low numbers of train passengers at Stamford Hill.
- passengers south of the station will head for Zone 2's Stoke Newington
- passengers north of the station will head for Victoria Line served Seven Sisters
- passengers west of the station will head for Zone 2 and Piccadilly Line served Manor House
- some passengers east of the station will head for Zone 2's Clapton or on one of the many buses on the A10
Plus have you ever been? It's grotty, even now.
South Hampstead I'd imagine faces similar difficulties; ditto Penge West...
This month. Because of the Great Paddington Shutdown over Christmas, the very last direct train between Paddington and Greenford will be the 21:15 from Paddington and 21:45 return on December 23rd
Location is the key issue as it's off the Broadway and forgotten about a bit. The line also goes too far east, missing out popular destinations like Dalston and Shoreditch etc.
Hackney Downs and Liverpool Street are the only places anyone would really want to go to. And for the former buses are much more frequent.
Also a lot of the local residents don't tend to leave the area and use public transport as much.
Similarly, from January to June 2017 the entire loop will be closed for track replacement, so expect James Street to suddenly jump up in next year's list.
Initially, possibly. But when Crossrail is up and running I bet it will be more popular than it has ever been in its history as people find with a simple change they can get to the heart of London.
But surely with a simple change they can get to the heart of London now with easy changes at Ealing Broadway or Greenford?
I'd be surprised if it did, to be honest. The catchment area of the line is actually quite small (and relatively lightly populated, due to the presence of the green areas surrounding the River Brent), and most of it is within walking distance or a short bus hop of an alternative Central line or GWML station.
I'd imagine that a lot of people will start using alternative lines their preferred method to get into London – those that don't already – when the direct trains are withdrawn, and even when full Crossrail starts it'll probably end up being more convenient to walk or bus directly to Hanwell/West Ealing/Ealing Broadway rather than walk to a station on a branch with a slow half-hourly service that travels perpendicular to the direction they want to go.
the benefits of interchange with Crossrail was one of the justifications for cutting the Greenford branch back to West Ealing; however, the other proposed improvement of doubling the frequency to 4 trains an hours doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon. Added to which, according to the latest consulation, trains for Heathrow may no longer be stopping at West Ealing so passengers from the Greenford branch will have to change twice.
- The platforms are only accessible via a steep flight of stairs
- Journey times into Liverpool Street are quite long, especially at peak times - it's often quicker to get the bus to Seven Sisters or Clapton and go from there
@the orange one - no barriers there yet
All this said, usage is well up there - by almost 50k since 14/15 to over 503k in 15/16
Well, given you're gonna have to go Reddish South -> Denton (wait for one whole week on the station platform) -> onwards it's not something to do! But if you allowed buses, that could be interesting...
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