Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
I know nowt about trains, but it's usually reported that there has to be two services a week by law - anybody know more?
Quite a lot are one a week, one direction only (particularly where footbridges to a platform have been removed / haven't been maintained).
I'm not sure there's a specific rule; just what they think a judge would accept. In England I wonder if they could run a service on the 5th Sunday of each month!
In Scotland they tried the ghost train trick with two short stretches of track left unserved when they tried to withdraw the West Highland Sleeper, but the courts there ruled that what they were doing didn't count as a service as they clearly didn't intend that anyone would use it.
I wonder if this station should perhaps be allowed a dignified death. The airport, regrettably, doesn't need it.