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[email protected] · July 8th 10, 09:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:46:40 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:21:47 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

There are plenty all around the system. LU should change their moto to
Never Knowingly Early. Its fine for a train to be late but god forbid its
running slightly early - then you'll be sitting at a platform for 2 minutes
going nowhere.

It's not a bad railway rule to never accept early running, as that
means people miss the train. On much of LUL, that doesn't matter, but
on the Circle, H&C and Met, where frequencies are lower, people may
well be attempting to do so.

I can understand delaying an early train at slack times when the trains are
half full or even empty. But doing it in the rush hour when no one else is
going to fit on the train anyway is utterly pointless. All it does is delay
everyone on the train and make them even hotter and more ****ed off than
they'd otherwise be.

B2003