Luton Airport Parkway targets faster trains

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• Philip Walker - 24/08/2017 13:23

  I hardly think the loss of non-stop services to Leicester and the slower journey times to the cities of Leicester, Derby and Nottingham that would result from adding a Luton Airport Parkway stop, will go down well. Nottingham has already suffered loss of its fast services calling only at Leicester. Luton Airport Parkway would be better serviced by faster Thameslink services, although the new Class 700 rolling stock is unsuitable and unpopular due to cramped seating etc.

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  • John N - 29/08/2017 08:07

    My original reply seems to have got lost probably because because I forgot to enter a name. I think the authorities at Luton Airport should understand that stopping more intercity diesels at the Parkway station is not really an environmentally friendly solution to the problem of needing more trains to and from the north of England, not to mention the cost of the extra diesel fuel which would be used, especially when there is going to be 70 miles of electrified track from London to Kettering (going on to Corby). If the proposed two electric trains an hour to Corby were to call at LA Parkway the intercity diesels could run non-stop between St Pancras and Kettering and still provide better connectivity than we have at present as well as giving a faster service from Nottingham. although it would mean one extra stop at Kettering for the Derby train. It will be a few years before the bi-mode trains start to run and perhaps it would be feasible then for the Sheffield train and possible other intercities to call at Luton Airport Parkway to set down only going south, and pick up only going north

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• James Miller - 24/08/2017 21:09

  I don't think it's the trains that are the problem at Luton Aurport. It's the distance between the station and the Airport. From where I live in East London, Saint Pancras is a terrible interchange to both the MML and Thameslink, as you walk down endless passageways from the Victoria Line to get a main line train. I always use West Hampstead to get to Bedford and tend to avoid Luton Airport, because of the bad connections in London at St. Pancras.

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• FrankH - 24/08/2017 23:25

  With 1 fast @20min, 3 semi fast @30-32 minutes and 3 stoppers per hour @47 minutes I think the airport has sufficient service to london. EMT or their succesor is hardly going to put the airport as a priority. The slowest is still 30 minutes quicker than the coach service. Nick Barton should be looking for extra services which are not on EMT or Thameslink routes, not everyone comes from London to use the airport.

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• AndrewJGwilt1989 - 25/08/2017 01:13

  I think that the new Luton Airport light rail mass transit could start construction from late next year and to be completed in late 2019 or early 2020. Or could start from late 2019 and to be completed in mid-late 2020. As it will get rid of the shuttle buses that operates from the "Parkway" station to the airport main terminal at London Luton Airport. As it take at least 5 minutes and is much quicker than using shuttle buses which can get stuck in traffic along the way.

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• Noam Bleicher - 25/08/2017 08:28

  NO NO NO NO NO! The purpose of the MML is to provide fast journeys between LEI, NOT, DBY, SHF and London, as well as between themselves. It is not to provide journey opportunities to a secondary budget airport, largely catering for holidaymakers. There will be frequent Thameslink services to Parkway and there is an existing hourly inter-city service. This should be good enough.

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• AndrewJGwilt1989 - 25/08/2017 22:00

  Good idea. That would means you can go from Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Kettering, Corby and Loughborough to Luton Airport Parkway without having to change at Bedford and use Thameslink. Aswell from London St. Pancras and West Hampstead Thameslink to Luton Airport Parkway.

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