Here's the good news I promised!

I posted a piece the other day announcing London Midland's plans to introduce three extra trains later in the day from London in the December timetable. And I teased you by saying that I hoped to have some good news about passenger figures at Stone Station.

Well, I've now got the email from London Midland stating that they have calculated that 76,500 passenger journeys were made from Stone Station in the twelve months to the end of March 2011. That's a fantastic figure and surely justifies the campaign we ran for several years to get the trains running again from Stone.

Informed estimates are suggesting that the figures for the following twelve months to March 2012 could well top 100,000. Another great success story!