purple pete wrote:

What's the advantage to
having the train waits at the terminus for most of the time???


Err - Passengers?

No, when a train is waiting at the terminus it's NOT carrying passengers!

Its not a mini cab service that goes as soon as YOU turn up.

Of course it isn't - it only goes from one station to the next.

Timetables
are printed so why cant people like me look at them and use them?

ISTR passenger timetables are not printed for the Northern Line!

OK so it goes wrong and is late etc but really its a public service
rather than turn up and go.

Being turn up and go does not make it any less of a public service, and
turn up and go is better than turn up and wait!

In some parts of the country i am sure there
are only 2 trains a day etc

But does the driver wait at the terminus for longer than it actually takes
to drive the trains?

Have you actually used the trains in London?

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Aidan Stanger
http://www.bettercrossrail.co.uk