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Old April 17th 05, 09:45 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Neil Williams Neil Williams is offline
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Default Why are Silverlink Metro trains NEVER on time ?

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:03:04 +0000 (UTC), "Colin"
wrote:

Silverlink trains ALWAYS get priority over Bakerloo trains at Queens Park on
the Northbound
quite often causing "blocking-back" or queing from Paddington.


I'd suggest that it is more important to give Silverlink priority
given their lower service frequency. LUL, generally speaking, operate
a turn-up-and-go type service where few will refer to timetables, even
though they do exist.

The half-hourly Silverlink service isn't frequent enough for this, so
delaying a Bakerloo train a couple of minutes (or sending one off
early, for that matter) is less of a concern, and is probably
worthwhile overall to keep the Silverlink on time.

Neil

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