On Aug 20, 9:33*pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
Andy wrote:
On Aug 20, 8:21 pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
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.

True, but London Midland do have the possibility of lengthening all
their remaining peak trains to 12 coaches. This is a luxury that few
of the other London commuter operators have without Network Rail
spending money on the infrastructure. I would certainly expect a few
peak trains will get longer as the new class 350s come on line, as the
class 321s are not fully diagrammed, even with units on loan
elsewhere.

As I've just pointed out elsewhere, there are two new hourly services north
of Northampton to cover. The 350s replace 321s 1 for 1, there'll be no
increase in overall numbers...


Excepting the units already on loan to NEEA, of course.