On 25 June, 13:07, wrote:
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(Mizter T) wrote:
There's lots of discussion in this mega-epic DD thread concerning the
weekend trial and indeed the whole Tea cup concept - talk of the trial
starts on page 29:

http://districtdave.proboards.com/in...tion=display&t...
8139&page=29



There's a good deal of scepticism about it - FWIW some of those
commenting are involved in the operational railway (whilst others are
just observers), though I can't help but feel that some of the
opposition is just the innate conservatism and opposition to change
that always shows itself when a shake-up of the old ways is proposed.
As I've said downthread, if it makes the Circle line work better,
there's surely something to be said for it.

It seems to me a case of operator convenience overruling convenience for
(some) passengers.

Operators know more about things like signalling, track layouts and
routing. Passengers know more about what the problems of actually
getting on the right train to where they want to go.

While passengers should probably be more understanding of the problems
face by operators, the operators could do more to take into account
that there is no point in running the trains through the junctions in
the most efficient way if they aren't carrying passengers (who are on
the other side of the bridge, not having been told in time etc).

The purpose of the system must be to carry passengers; not to run
empty trains efficiently.