RailFail

[major_clanger]

Tonight it turns out that there is exactly one train from Cambridge to anywhere in London between 1030pm at 5 tomorrow morning. What sort of an excuse for a rail service is this?!

Comments

[zotz]

Sounds like the usual service. Cambridge's links to London haven't been as close as Oxford's since . . . probably about 1640. Maybe longer.

[timill]

Wot? No milk train? What would Bertie do?

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

That is pretyy bad! I'm sure i used to get a later train back to Camb from the Ton....?

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that's going the other way ... the assumption is always that one is fleeing the metropolis for home.

It is practically impossible to get to London from Folkestone after 10 p.m., because why would you want to? (And after 9 p.m. on Sundays, when no one is travelling home from a weekend at the coast.)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

On that doesn't run loss-making services.

There would be remarkably little demand for travel into London arriving in the middle of the night.

The cost of providing train, driver, depot staff to service the train, etc, would far outweigh any possible revenue - thus increasing fares everywhere else to subsidise it.