On 22 Jun, 10:25, Pete Fenelon wrote:
In uk.railway Neil Williams wrote:

On Jun 22, 9:18 am, Paul Corfield wrote:

* The Community Rail service between Matlock and Derby will be increased
to every hour and extended directly to Nottingham.

Wonder how long that is guaranteed for if it becomes a big cash-
waster?

At a guess the Derby-Nottingham leg will subsidise the Matlock-Derby
end...

pete
--
"how many clever men have called the sun a fool?"

The DfT have been promising to reinstate the third Nottingham - Derby
train each hour that Central (under instruction) chopped when the
Skegness - Crewe service was split for quite a while now. I'm just a
little surprised they've decided to do it this way rather than extend
the Crewe trains back to Nottingham, although I'm sure the Matlock
line users group will be delighted to get a regular hourly service
again rather than the current irregular shuttle from Derby.

GM

GMac wrote:
although I'm sure the Matlock
line users group will be delighted to get a regular hourly service
again rather than the current irregular shuttle from Derby.

Absolutely. With a new Matlock bus station currently under construction
next to the railway station (as part of a supermarket scheme), this
could sound like real joined-up thinking ... until one hears that a good
proportion of the buses will not serve the new bus station.

Why not? Because it will take too long to circumnavigate the town as a
result of the new road layout ... which is part of the scheme to build
the new bus station!

John Geddes
Derbyshire