Esk Valley - Britain's Worst Service?

摘要

The Middlesbrough-Whitby Esk Valley line has 'probably the worst service in the country', according to the Community Rail Partnership that supports the line. With just four trains a day, run mainly for schoolchildren, most residents along the 35-mile single line regard the railway as 'semi-detached' from the main rail system, offering few onward connections beyond Middlesbrough. The service on the line was halved in 1991, but questions of increasing subsidy or pursuing closure were not addressed.rnNow, the Esk Valley Railway Development Company has won funding from the Department for Transport and Network Rail, through the Association of Community Rail Partnerships, for research into the possible restoration of at least an earlier morning train from Whitby and a later evening return working.