On 20 Aug, 20:21, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:14:22 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

The more overcrowded services seem to be those that are
first stop Watford and then most stops to Milton Keynes.

From what I can see, the *most* overcrowded are the Tring locals,
followed by the Bletchley semi-locals, followed by the
Leighton/MKC/Northampton fasts, followed by the (Harrow), Watford then
most stops to Northampton runs as the least busy.

But remember that the LM timetable won't now change substantially in
the near future after the 2009 changes, and it needs to take into
account massive growth in the Milton Keynes/Bletchley to/from Euston
run. *Thus, piling on the local passengers makes about as much sense
as crowding out Euston to Glasgow services between Euston and MKC,
which VT are very keen on avoiding.

LO do have a point in that the Bakerloo might actually take up the
slack (and given that most people aren't actually going *to* Euston it
probably will), with people changing from that as appropriate. *But
does the Bakerloo have capacity?

Tons of room, at least as far south as Willesden, in both peaks. the
overcrowded ones are the overground ones -- which always seem to
arrive a couple of minutes before a much longer bakerloo. Surely it
would make more sense to run a bakerloo ahead of a LO, and then stop
them both at Queens park to allow cross platform. (Extending LO to 6
car trains, maintaining 3tph, in the peak would help too, but I guess
there's stock problems