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Neil Williams · December 16th 14, 10:07 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 2014-12-16 13:34:40 +0000, d said:

No, but they could be slightly less tardy closing the doors. Wouldn't make
up 5 mins but it would help. A much bigger help would be replacing the 378s
with the much faster accelerating S Stock but obviously its too late for that
now.

A culture of sloppiness appears to have developed in LM as well. I
noted that the delayed 1830ish MKC-Brum was at the platform for around
2-3 minutes while the guard faffed about and made an announcement he
could have made after departure, well after all the commuters had got
off.

Of course, you can run a punctual timetable with any rolling stock, you
just have to put enough slack in it. So as the stock is what it is,
the timetable perhaps needs more padding.

Neil
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