>> Build it and they will come?
I think that is happening already.
I grew up in Guiseley, a suburban village NW of Leeds. It had a station and an hourly train to Leeds run mostly by two car Diesel Multiple Units of 'Modernisation Plan' vintage (ie fifties/sixties). Might have been one or two extras in evening peak. No Sunday service except in Summer. It was better than the bus for shopping in Leeds and of coutrse if connecting to/from London but next to nobody commuted.
Forty years later the line is electrified and service is half hourly but with significant rush hour enhancement (10 minute intervals around 08:00).
Manchester has seen even greater enhancement with the trams and Birmingham has seen Moor St/Snow Hill both returned to significant use.
Ample evidence that if you build they will come.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Wed 4 Dec 19 at 12:24
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