Talk:Silverlink

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The Silverlink service between Stratford and Richmond is extremely overcrowded during rush hours. The service only ever uses three carriages and because of their design and the station platform design it becomes very difficult for passenger to disembark from the train in a timely manner. Equally difficult for new passengers to board the train. Also, poor carriage design fails to encourage passegers to not cause obstruction. For example, there are very few places to hold-on for shorter passengers (gennerally women) while standing, so obstructions occur around the doorways. This poor passenger flow causes dalays, and outright conflicts between passengers on a daily basis. SilverLink resolves these delays by cancelling trains which are negatively impacting the schedule of the next train. Worsening the overcrowding, but maintaining good statistics for time-table performance. There was one occassion (at Kew Gardens station) when this was attempted, but passengers refused to dis-embark. Police were called to resolve the situation.

Silverlink staff say that the reason they only ever have three carriages per train is because there are some station platforms that are too short to support the use of more carriages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.171.209.250 (talk) 09:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe that's true - it's certainly been a problem of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line. The orbital railways were not particularly well used for decades and so services were cut back, existing usable platform lengths cut and the abandoned sections either left to rot - reactivating them involves a heck of a lot more than just removing a few barriers and moving signals - or ripped up for developments. Any new stations (or resitings) were built with the shorter length. Hence it's not possible yet to run longer trains. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, why does this article not make any mention of the fact that Silverlink used to run to Birmingham, but for some unknown reason decided to only run to Northampton. This article seems to be rather biased to the London end of things, and has very little about what goes on up north. Does anyone know what will happen to the London - Northampton - Birmingham services when Silverlink and Central Trains are broken up perchance? G-Man * 20:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Stopping running between Northampton and Birmingham was a SRA decision. Current plans from the DfT for the later part of this decade call for an hourly Desiro service up the Trent Valley running Euston - Northampton - Crewe (and possibly some to Liverpool). -- Arwel (talk) 00:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Silverlink Metro

I commented out some editorialising about the performance of S Metro. If it is is to go back, it needs to have a reference to an independent source. The Evening Standard would do if there is nothing better. --Concrete Cowboy 23:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Quite right. I would like to vent steam at Sliverlink too but Wikipedia is not the place to do it. What I find interesting (as somebody who has only been using Silverlink for a 3 years) is to read the Barking to Gospel Oak user group's history page in which they describe the current Silverlink service as a significant improvement on the almost even worse service in the later years of BR. That flatly contradicts the claims made in the text you removed. If people want to reference bad things said about the Silverlink services which are actually true then they should check out the GLA report into their services. That didn't pull any punches. --DanielRigal 10:30, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Silverlink (recording artist)

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it may not be important to whoever is deleting information of this page, but is is a fact that there is more than one meaning of Silverlink, this page is named silverlink not silverlink trains. please leave this information as the whole point of this site is the spreading of information not deleting it.

Silverlink is a recording artist, remixer and dj. he has recently remixed Lily Allen, he has also remixed Klaxons under the title of Third eye mafia {with Matthew wowow}. Silverlink

Section has been removed as it is (almost) entirely unrelated to this article.

IT IS NOTHING PERSONAL!

If "Silverlink" is notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, then please create an article for him. But please bear in mind that his article will need to be named Silverlink (recording artist), or similar, as this article ("Silverlink", ie about the train company):

(a) was here first (by a long way!)

(b) has hundreds of pages pointing to it (a name change would require a lot of work) and

(c) was where Silverlink (recording artist) got his name, if (ADAADAT) is anything to go by

Also, if Mr Silverlink does qualify for his own page, there will be absolutely no problem about including a 'Disambiguation' link to his article at the top of this one. That's how WP works.

Please do not add this information to this page again, as it will be considered vandalism and removed.

Note for other editors: Googling for 'Silverlink' produced only three hits (in the first 60) related to this remixer: his MySpace page (which I could not accesss), a radio station (that had no information about him), and the above link.

EdJogg 16:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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Stops between COV and BHM

My addition of the stations between Coventry and New Street is disputed. Per WP:BRD, I accept that part of the reversion pending discussion, though I don't agree.

I don't have hard evidence that it did stop at those stations but I can give a categorical assurance that it certainly did stop there because I have been on those trains while it did so. So maybe the issue is re

1. the early days of the franchise
2. the position after Central took over
3. the position as at the end of the franchise.

Unless someone has saved all the old timetables, I don't know how we can resolve this. I don't really care enough to insist so I have hidden those stops unless and until someone can produce the evidence to support my memory of those hours of my life that I will never get back. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:19, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

I used to travel to into Coventry, and then to Tile Hill in the early 2000s, around 2000-2004, I can tell you that the Silverlink service didn't stop between Coventry and (I think) Birmingham International. There was a half hourly Central Trains local service at the time which stopped at every station between Coventry and Wolverhampton, so I had to change onto that to get to Tile Hill. It might be that the service pattern changed after they split the service, I vaguely remember that it did, but I had stopped using it regularly by then, however that was the situation before the split. G-13114 (talk) 16:12, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Ok, I'm talking about the 1990s, early in the franchise. And yes it did stop, god did it stop. Every train at every station. I bet someone on the UK Trains wikiproject still has the timetables if you want to pursue it (I don't). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:10, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

I've got a complete set of timetables since 1987, in paper form until 2011 then as PDFs. The paper ones are in storage, it may take some time to dig them out. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:34, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Only if it really intrigues you. I'm really not that concerned to be proven right. As you will know from past experience, I'm always right. ;-^ --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:25, 3 October 2020 (UTC)