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Default Five new London Midland trains to carry 1,600 extra passengersfrom Watford and Bushey to london Euston from December

On 1 Oct, 13:01, burkey wrote:
From eWatford Observer 11:30am Thursday 1st October 2009

Five new London Midland trains to carry 1,600 extra passengers from
Watford and Bushey to London Euston from December

By Michael Pickard »

Five new “shuttle services” will serve train passengers in Watford and
Bushey, when a new timetable is launched in December.
London Midland today announced there will be an extra 1,600 seats on
peak commuter services when the new trains begin to run into and out
of London.
They will also operate from Harrow and Wealdstone, while two more
shuttles will stop at Tring and Milton Keynes.
The extra seats follow a successful bid by London Midland to the
Department for Transport, as part of the government's High Level
Output Specification (HLOS).
Other improvements will include extra ticket gates at London Euston
and extra staff.
London Midland Managing Director, Mike Hodson said: “These extra seats
are great news for London Midland passengers travelling to and from
Euston.
“In addition to our £190m investment in new trains, this successful
bid means we can provide more peak services when they’re really
needed.”
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John Burke
WRUG


Someone should write a book on 101 meanings for the word "train" in
press releases.

Some frequent/recent uses are

train (believe it or not)
locomotive
carriage (to bump up the apparent size of orders)
scheduled service
scheduled diagram
entire service on a route

Unlike with respect to the debates around "fewer" and "railway
station", I really have no idea what is meant by "train" in most press
stories.