hanha yes that's the other side to current 'services'. May run. May run on time. Left half the people who wanted to board on the platform mind and the other half asphyxiated on arrival but hey, the stats look good...
In the 30s and 40s you could travel overnight on trains all over the country. Everything else has gone 24/7, it's fitting that just about the only things that haven't are unions and government. Perhaps we should be aiming for a 18/6 train network to begin with?