Rail Punctuality worst in a decade

TaplowGreen

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Rail Punctuality worst in a decade

« on: May 13, 2016, 22:41:17 »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/12/rail-network-punctuality-drops-to-worst-level-in-almost-a-decade/ .....doesn't suggest that much progress is being made?

Edit note: Broken link fixed. CfN.


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ChrisB

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Re: Rail Punctuality worst in a decade

« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2016, 07:09:38 »

Number of services running on the same tracks continues to rise. It won't improve


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ellendune

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Re: Rail Punctuality worst in a decade

« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2016, 08:57:22 »

Yes you could go back to diagrams that leave spare trains in the case of failure, timetables with more padding in them and have spare paths to allow for recovery in the event of failure.

Then you would rightly complain that trains were overcrowded even more than they are at the moment while trains sit in the depot in the peaks and that there were spare paths that could be used.

The only solution is more trains with greater acceleration and more track capacity. And of course every time you touch infrastructure to improve it, it becomes more unreliable.


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