Boom In Cycle-Rail Journeys
The title of this post is the title of this article in Rail Magazine.
These two statistics are given.
- Cycle-rail journeys have increased by 40% since 2010.
- The number of journeys where a bike was parked at the station increased by 75% in the same period.
You certainly see a lot more bikes on trains.
I think in the next few years will see more restrictions on bike usage on trains. Sometimes, there are just too many bikes, pushchairs and enormous cases on trains and there’ll come a point, when train companies try to cut the numbers.
I was talking to one of the driver managers of a company introducing the new Class 800 trains. He felt that the designers had not incorporated enough cycle places.
We shall see if he’s right, when the trains are serving their first summer.
As passengers have the space in the locomotive at present, if they turn up with a bike in the future and are told there there is no room, it will be an unholy row!
The Anonymous Widower 
My daughter, Helen, and her partner James, are cycling Hadrian’s Wall over her Birthday weekend and trains are somehow linked into this, not sure how. The daughter who thought I was cruel for not giving her notes to get her out of PE is suddenly running 10K for the fun of it, and cycling 10 miles to work and back and all manner of strange things. And now she has found a guy who does the same sort of things.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | May 24, 2016 |