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


Err - Passengers? Its not a mini cab service that goes as soon as YOU turn
up. Timetables are printed so why cant people like me look at them and use
them? OK so it goes wrong and is late etc but really its a public service
rather than turn up and go. In some parts of the country i am sure there
are only 2 trains a day etc

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

In article ,
Aidan Stanger wrote:
ISTR passenger timetables are not printed for the Northern Line!

I think that the MHE branch has a timetable publically available.

A timetable exists - and is printed - for the whole line, but that's
a pedantic point.

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"Get your head out of there or I'll fart"
-- things you don't want to hear in bed, #12

Mike Bristow wrote:

Aidan Stanger wrote:
ISTR passenger timetables are not printed for the Northern Line!

I think that the MHE branch has a timetable publically available.

Can anyone confirm this? What does it look like?

A timetable exists - and is printed - for the whole line, but that's
a pedantic point.

And it's precisely because of that pedantic point that I included the
word "passenger".

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

"Aidan Stanger" wrote in message
...
Mike Bristow wrote:

I think that the MHE branch has a timetable publically available.

Can anyone confirm this?

It certainly had one approx five years ago. So did Chigwell etc.

What does it look like?

A single sheet of paper... imagine a portrait A4, but half as wide.

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:50:28 +0100, John Rowland wrote:


A single sheet of paper... imagine a portrait A4, but half as wide.

That's A5.

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jhk

Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:50:28 +0100, John Rowland wrote:


A single sheet of paper... imagine a portrait A4, but half as wide.

That's A5.

Or not - it might be if it were *landscape* A4, but half as wide.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

"Jarle H Knudsen" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:50:28 +0100, John Rowland wrote:

a portrait A4, but half as wide.

That's A5.

No, that would be a portrait A4, but half as high.