robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
This case, of two otherwise separate route segments being run, just once a day, as a through service reminds me of something you would see sometimes in BR days, ie. pre-franchising, where adjoining regional and local services would occasionally be linked together to make long, meandering services which I took to be more for operational-logistic reasons rather than passenger demand.
One such example was a single Leicester-Blackpool train per day via Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, that ran in 1990, possibly just for one timetable. It was operated by a 2-car class 150 with low-backed hard seats, left Leicester about 9 am, and stopped almost everywhere.
