(26 Jul 2014, 3:45 pm)BJ10VUS wrote Sorry, was a bit confusing!
Nobody was using the bus services to the airport, so they got cancelled. If nobody is visiting by frequent bus service, surely having a frequent rail service makes no difference, because nobody would use that either?
No worries, just wasn't sure.
As an airport, it is struggling.
Not many commercial aircraft use the facility, so passenger numbers (regardless of how many trains stop), are going to be low.
However, if only a handful of trains do stop there each day, it is hardly going to encourage those who could use it, to actually use it.
I think each station on that list needs to be looked at as a bigger picture.
(26 Jul 2014, 3:54 pm)aureolin wrote Aye this is it. Most regular users are season ticket holders, which have to be from point A to point B. It's pointless getting a season ticket if you've potentially got to wait a couple of hours for a train home. In Blaydon and Dunston's case, there'd probably be a lot more demand if it was a T&W Metro stopping there, and not a NR train.
Northern did say that Blaydon and Dunston would feature additional trains serving.
I think those two stations will struggle for passengers as long as there is a regular bus service in the area.