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Originally Posted by Inniskeen
Usage on the WRC may well be relatively modest. Possible reasons include service frequency, low end railcars, uncompetitive journey times
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Originally Posted by Colm Moore
Surely this is the actual basis of the complaints about the WRC, not reasons to support it.
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Originally Posted by Inniskeen
I don't understand this comment
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It can be expected that the recession has affected customer numbers with any business. We can't really blame the WRC for that.
However, service frequency was always going to be poor given the single track and lack of passing places.
The (refurbished) low end railcars have the required maximum speed to avail of the maximum speed on most of the track. Higher performance trains wouldn't deliver a substantially faster service. The extra cost of faster / longer / more sophisticated (catering / first class) trains.
The journey times were always going to be uncompetitive unless there was a huge upgrade to the route. That would have just been throwing good money after bad.