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Originally Posted by swisstrains
Local passenger services are suffering so that Cross-Country and Inter-City trains can be speeded up in order to compete with the airlines. However there's no need to worry because in the not too distant future the age of cheap air travel will come to an end and the railways can revert back to providing a service for everyone. That's my theory anyway  |
...but don't hold your breath
Of course, long distance trains are indeed competing with airlines but shorter distance trains help to take traffic off our over-crowded roads.
In the case of Nuneaton, they now want to drastically reduce the number of London-bound trains that call there (from 14 to 5, I think), thereby making it less convenient to plan a journey to the capital - especially, if you've also got to rely on the one train per hour connection to my local station, say. So you can see the spiralling-down effect taking this once-busy mainline junction station down to an un-manned halt (OK, a bit of an exaggeration, but the privately-owned railways have to make money and they'd have to look at cost-cutting measures).