On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:01:58 +0100
"Recliner" wrote:
That it should be viewed as "nothing unusual" for a train to stop for
a while waiting for a train operator *in the evening peak* is an awful
indictment of the current management and/or timetable of the
Piccadilly Line.

It's happened for as long as I can remember, so there's nothing new
about this. The same happens on the District at Earls Court.

And at arnos grove going north. It could be 6pm with a huge queue of
trains backed up down the line but they don't give a stuff - they'll take
their merry time swapping drivers, assuming the relief driver has even
bothered to turn up in the first place which isn't always guaranteed.
Why there has to be a driver change anyway 3 stops before the end of the line
is a mystery even Mulder and Scully would have trouble solving.

B2003