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David Cantrell · August 23rd 12, 11:00 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:50:34AM +0000, d wrote:

This freight business always gets mentioned but in that case can someone
explain why you can stand at an NLL station for ages and absolutely nothing
goes past? Where are all these freight trains , are they stopped somewhere
blocking the line?

They have paths allocated but only use them if there's freight to carry.
Whether the path will be used is not known until shortly beforehand.

It would be a logistical nightmare to run passenger trains in those
paths at short notice if the paths are available. You couldn't predict
in advance where all your trains were, so couldn't schedule them for
maintenance so efficiently. And it would also annoy passengers to have
trains that run seemingly at random.

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