More carriages for overcrowded trains
THE most overcrowded service on East Midlands Trains' network will have carriages from next year – providing an extra 1,500 seats a day.
The Department for Transport is paying for East Midlands Trains to lease four extra Class 156 trains from May 2011.
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The carriages will be used on services between Nottingham and Skegness and from Lincoln to Leicester.
This will then allow a number of refurbished Class 158 trains to strengthen services on the busiest stretch of railway – connecting Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool.
An extra 10 services every weekday will be doubled in size to four-car trains, providing 1,500 more seats daily, between Nottingham and Liverpool.
Also, the 1.52pm Liverpool to Nottingham service will be extended to Norwich, and the 5.50am Norwich to Liverpool service will operate as a four-car train throughout.
East Midlands Trains' commercial director David Horne said: "This is fantastic news for our passengers. The additional funding secured will allow us to provide over 1,500 extra seats on the route every day from 2011 and will go a long way to alleviating the current overcrowding on many services."
David Thornhill, chairman of Notts Campaign for Better Transport, said: "We are really pleased at last we have a solution to the terrible overcrowding on the Nottingham to Liverpool section of the route. This is very good news.
"But why has it taken the DfT year after year thinking about this?
"In fact, if you look at the wider rail industry, what they are offering us is the crumbs left on the table.
"We do have to be thankful but the protracted failure of the DfT to fund rail investment in the East Midlands has been desperately disappointing."
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by Mr B J Mann, Nottingham
Friday, March 19 2010, 6:20PM
“I forgot to mention that you are a complete idiot Richard
Happy?
”
by Richard, Chilwell
Friday, March 19 2010, 4:20PM
“I do not believe that last post was the real B.J. Mann; it was far too even handed.
Also, he actually closed his text formatting, not causing all the comments below to be displayed in bold or italics.”
by David, Dark Side
Friday, March 19 2010, 1:37PM
“Failure, Mr B J Mann. Post was more than 50 words and contained your usual profanity.
Go to the back of the (traffic) queue.”
by j, leic
Friday, March 19 2010, 12:52PM
“You haven't answered my question BJ, you little liar.”
by j, leic
Friday, March 19 2010, 12:51PM
“BJ, ErrrrrrrrrrrrrDURRRRRRR, you've have completely avoided my questions (and the fact I pointed out that you lied). Care to answer?”
by Mr B J Mann, Nottingham
Friday, March 19 2010, 12:31PM
“"i" stands for INCREDIBLY STUPID AND GULLIBLE
It's all spin spin spin.....nuLab talk and 2Jags contortion of the facts.
The railways cost a lot more if we count the REAL Costs.
Costs such as:
Hospital bills for all those killed per passenger mile.
Children's breathing problems caused by pollution from trains.
The real cost of maintenence INCLUDING the on-costs which are CONVENIENTLY passed on to the roads by "George (not his real name) Painter" who sits in an office crammed full of Nottinghamshire County Council computers. and logs off as Freda.
YOU REALLY ARE INCREDIBLY THICK AND STUPID”
by j, leic
Thursday, March 18 2010, 9:18PM
“"When it was realised that £25Bn was needed to bring it up to any sort of safety standard."
BJ, you are so full of shiite it is unbelievable. You just blatantly lie!
The entire West Coast mainline upgrade cost £10 billion, how on earth could the upgrade of, what is in effect a branch line, cost £25bn??!?!?!”
by David, Grantham
Thursday, March 18 2010, 9:12PM
“Another challenge to BJ Mann. Try posting without making yourself look silly.
The Crewe to Skegnes LINE is still there, in exactly the same place it was 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 , 80 etc etc etc years ago.
I have travelled on it many times.
The line runs via Stoke on Trent, Derby, Nottingham, Grantham, Boston.
Network Rail has recently been relaying track at the eastern end to increase line speeds and reduce jourmey times.
The only diffrence from 20 years ago is that there are no longer any THROUGH trains between Crewe and Skegness, so one might have to change trains en route, depending on where you are travelling from and to.”
by j, leic
Thursday, March 18 2010, 9:02PM
“BJ you idiot, it is still very much open. It goes Crewe-Stoke-Uttoxeter-Derby-Nottingham-Skegness.
ErrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrDURRRRRRRRRR”
by David, Dark Side
Thursday, March 18 2010, 6:33PM
“Mr B J Mann...a challenge for you. Try and do just one post without using the words Imbecile, Moron or Stupid. And try and make it less than 50 words.
Errrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmm.....think you can do that?”