Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
Transport for London seem intent on making every other vehicle on our
roads a half empty bendy bus. I believe it being on fire is optional :-)

But why don't they do some similar bribery to get more trains running on
the overground ? I come in from Palmers Green to Moorgate every morning
and there are huge gaps in the service.

I was about to say, "this is clearly some new definition of huge gaps in
the service, given there's a train every 10 minutes"...but then I
checked the timetable and it seems that FCC have been messing about with it.

New timetable gives the following departures from Palmers Green:

0535 (to Kings Cross), 0605 (to Moorgate), 0635, 0658, 0709, 0718, 0728,
0737, 0745, 0753, 0802, 0815, 0823, 0828, 0845, 0903, 0908, 0920, 0938
and then it settles down to the off-peak pattern of xx55, xx15 and xx35.

Have to say that I'm rather lucky living near the Cambridge, as it gives
me a choice of Palmers Green, Edmonton Green or Silver Street, all
taking about the same time to get to.

New timetable on "one" gives an 0530, 0600, 0615, then near enough every
10 minutes from Silver Street until 0945, when it settles down to the
off-peak pattern of every 15 minutes.

Cheers,

Barry