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Old September 18th 17, 12:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:39:38 +0100
"tim..." wrote:
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Makes perfect sense to me. LU timetables are just fiction. Someone should
invest in buying the drivers and signalmen some watches at least.


you mean that they don't have them (watches that is)?

And in any case, how does having a timer stop the delay happening in the
first place.


Because as a couple of hundred people are sitting in a train with a green
light waiting for the relief driver to turn up to take over, perhaps having
an alarm bell in the mess might remind him that he's paid to drive the damn
thing.

Another nice-to-have would be an auto cutoff interval on the PA if the driver
decides he's a budding talk radio host and spends 2 minutes telling us the
bleedin fecking obvious.

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