Originally Posted by
LTNman
Carlisle is one of the best connected towns in the country via motorway and the railway and has a half hourly services to London. By the time minimum check-in times are considered and then the hour train ride to and from Southend there is next to no saving. Looking the other way there are also direct train services to both Edinburgh and Glasgow. Island communities are isolated and Carlisle isn't. If Stobart wants to run a service that is fine but not at taxpayers expense.
If the good people of Cumbria agree with you then the route will fail, but then there's Dublin and Belfast where it's easier to make a case for CAX. Lots of ways the government waste our money. Don't blame Stobart.