On 01/05/2014 14:09, tim..... wrote:
[...]
It doesn't say what marshalling is. A strict grammatical meaning
would simply be people making sure that no-one queue jumps. It
wouldn't include going out of their way to put customers for like
destinations in the same cab

In the past it's been very clear that it involves finding people to
share cabs to similar destinations.

but only if you already know that

which I don't

which is why I asked


And I told you. But you wanted to believe the worst.

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 13:27:45 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
I'd guess it meant that the last inbound was later than the last
outbound.

I thought all the depots were at (or near) the extremities (Morden,
Rislip, Northfields etc)

When running only a few trains, they don't necessarily have to keep them
at depots overnight.

Yesterday the Border Agency systems broke, with queues of 90 minutes to
2 hrs reported at some airports.

OMG !

This really is getting silly (and I wonder if one's insurance might cover
such a delay!)

Probably not, as it isn't a failure of transport.

But it is a "failure", outside of your control

Personally I don't understand the BAs insistence that everyone be so
rigorously checked.

Security works best if it is random. So what if one day a year everyone
gets weaved through. As long as that day isn't predictable, no would-be
terrorist could take advantage of it.

And yes, I know that the gutter press would highlight it as if red sea had
opened up. But the BA just have to defend the decision properly, on genuine
security grounds, not cower down because some unnecessarily made up rule had
been broken

tim

In message , at 15:16:37 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
I'm talking about at the airport putting together pax for Reading, pax
for Woking, pax for Watford etc. This would be routine, not something
special because of a rail strike.

When I was in Atlanta 30 years ago attending trade fairs, the people
policing the taxi rank (don't get me started on the multiple overlapping
'police' forces there) would only let attendees departing at the end of
the afternoon catch a cab if they were prepared to share it to a
destination (which could be the other side of the city).

What was surprising was how many of those attendees who had spent the
entire day being nice to one another thought this an impossibly
uncomfortable request. Another thing I learnt at the time was to never
get a cab whose driver's window was open, because that meant their
aircon had packed up.

As yet I have no indication that this might be done at LHR last week.

Just because you don't know doesn't mean it's not happening.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 15:22:08 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
Yesterday the Border Agency systems broke, with queues of 90
minutes to 2 hrs reported at some airports.

OMG !

This really is getting silly (and I wonder if one's insurance might
cover such a delay!)

Probably not, as it isn't a failure of transport.

But it is a "failure", outside of your control

But not one the insurance companies are likely to want to cover.

As ever, if you buy travel insurance at perhaps £100/yr, don't ever
expect to be able to claim anything useful because the premium is simply
too low compared to the number of hiccups involved in travel.
--
Roland Perry

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2014 14:09, tim..... wrote:
[...]
It doesn't say what marshalling is. A strict grammatical meaning
would simply be people making sure that no-one queue jumps. It
wouldn't include going out of their way to put customers for like
destinations in the same cab

In the past it's been very clear that it involves finding people to
share cabs to similar destinations.

but only if you already know that

which I don't

which is why I asked


And I told you. But you wanted to believe the worst.

No you didn't:

you pointed me to a web site that says:

a) taxi rank are being marshaled with no explanation of what marshaled means
and my simple interpretation is a "no" to what I would want

b) that it was only happening at London mainline termini, which last time I
checked doesn't include the cab rank(s) at Heathrow terminals

So coming back and explaining what marshalling means, still without
confirming that it is taking place at LHR, didn't answer it.

tim

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:16:37 on Thu, 1 May
2014, tim..... remarked:
I'm talking about at the airport putting together pax for Reading, pax for
Woking, pax for Watford etc. This would be routine, not something special
because of a rail strike.

When I was in Atlanta 30 years ago attending trade fairs, the people
policing the taxi rank (don't get me started on the multiple overlapping
'police' forces there) would only let attendees departing at the end of
the afternoon catch a cab if they were prepared to share it to a
destination (which could be the other side of the city).

What was surprising was how many of those attendees who had spent the
entire day being nice to one another thought this an impossibly
uncomfortable request. Another thing I learnt at the time was to never get
a cab whose driver's window was open, because that meant their aircon had
packed up.

As yet I have no indication that this might be done at LHR last week.

Just because you don't know doesn't mean it's not happening.

I know, I am trying to find out if it was.

tim