> 18 per hour, that's one train every 3 minutes or so? Doesn't that seem overly excessive? No, that sounds pretty normal. You've built the train line and the s

> 18 per hour, that's one train every 3 minutes or so? Doesn't that seem overly excessive? No, that sounds pretty normal. You've built the train line and the stations which is the expensive part, it would be a waste not to use it to full capacity. > Every 10 mins is probably more than enough, just make trains slightly longer to accommodate capacity It really isn't. You'd need to operate, what, 40-coach trains to match capacity, which would mean massive amounts of station rebuilding. Think of how much you'd have to demolish to extend Euston to accommodate that. > I was looking at London-Plymouth trains a few months back and the timetable was like once every 2 hours and the last one was at around 5 PM. I think going to maybe once an hour and more than like 3 trains per day would be a decent first improvement before trying something this ludicrous lol. Perfect is the enemy of good. Plymouth's urban population is literally 1/10th that of Birmingham, and travel need scales superlinearly.