The Anonymous Widower

A Massive Increase In Train Capacity In Ten Years

The Class 378 trains, were introduced as three-car trains on the North London Line in July 2009.

The original service was three trains per hour (tph) between Stratford and both Clapham Junction and Richmond stations.

This meant there were six tph between Stratford and Willesden Junction stations.

Or a capacity of eighteen carriages per hour!

This article on Railway Gazette is entitled UK Railway News Round-Up.

This is an extract.

From December 15 services between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction, and between Willesden Junction and Richmond, will increase from four to five trains/h, giving a 10 trains/h service between Willesden Junction and Stratford.

As the trains are now five-cars, that is a capacity of fifty carriages per hour.

That is an increase of a hundred and eighty percent over ten years.

I suspect, they’ll still be full in the Peak!

December 6, 2019 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Class 378 Train, North London Line