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Old June 30th 05, 04:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Piccadilly line reduced service was was Travelcards on Heathrow Express/Connect during LU closure

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:03:22 +0100, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:33:17 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Well, that's great. However, given that it takes 6 minutes for a train to
fo from Ealing Broadway to Acton Town, how on earth does the shuttle work
out at 3 tph? Even if it was worked by just one train, taking 6 minutes
either way and having a 3-minute rest, that's 4 tph!


Gets better though, 'cos the Customer Charter trigger is a 15 minute
wait, so you'd be able to claim a refund most of the time, it seems


Isn't that for a 15 minute *delay*? Otherwise the residents of
Chesham, Chigwell etc could get free journeys whenever they wanted...