To hell with one or another LoCo offering a "Stupid O'Clock" once a day service to/from NQY, might I take one's back to these days ay NQY:
The fuel bowsers became known as "Sweaty Betty" and "Fat Ann", if the diesel in the fuel tank was frozen in one of them of a morning then they'd light a bonfire beneath the bowser full of fuel, every body knew everbody it seems and there remains most definitely a market for up to a 3 times daily service to and from the London area, failing that then morning and evening to London and middle of the day to Manchester.