If you check his profile fully you'll see he/she openly admits it was actually a rest day, and nothing more than a wind up..
A lot of groups of drivers have very indiscreet conversations on trains.
It is unfortunate that industrial relations are at a point where many take great delight in using, or finding, opportunities to cause disruption. It's hard to wonder how we will get away from that.
But out performed its SRTs...which are dependent on lots of things like the driver, the loading of the train, the railhead conditions, etc. etc. Can't be judged on one favourable run alone.
I would presume drivers are getting sick and tired of being blamed by commuters of 'throwing sickies', when they're either on rest day or otherwise following their contracted hours. Also frustrating must be the Twitter team not really in a hurry to correct this notion.Yes unfortunately it's *very* common to find groups of GTR staff travelling pass very openly slagging off the company or gloating about how awkward they've been over something. If they're going to carry one like that then they could at least have the decency to do it in the confines of the messroom.
They'll not help themselves or their colleagues by having such conversations in earshot of passengers though!I would presume drivers are getting sick and tired of being blamed by commuters of 'throwing sickies', when they're either on rest day or otherwise following their contracted hours. Also frustrating must be the Twitter team not really in a hurry to correct this notion.
They'll not help themselves or their colleagues by having such conversations in earshot of passengers though!
If you check his profile fully you'll see he/she openly admits it was actually a rest day, and nothing more than a wind up..
Although it's strange how some passengers are able to earwig a conversation but then somehow claim they didn't hear a PA.
Although it's strange how some passengers are able to earwig a conversation but then somehow claim they didn't hear a PA.
I mean, at a rough guess, it's probably because there's more than one passenger and they don't have uniform hearing?
And the conversations are *really* not discreet. More like excitable gaggle of teenagers in school playground, or the lads in the pub after the match...
I don't know what SRT means, but I guess from context it's referring to travel time between stations?
If so, yes, it took 11.5 minutes to get from Ely to Cambridge North rather than the timetabled 12. So if it had taken 12, it could still have taken 2, rather than 2.5, waiting at Cambridge, and still been within the dwell times you quoted.
Then I become puzzled as to how these times are worked out. The train I quoted took 23 minutes from departing Cambridge to passing through (not calling at) Hitchin, against a timetabled 24.5. But I can find other trains, e.g. here, which are timetabled as only 23.5 minutes between Cambridge and Hitchin. Why the difference? There's no stops in either case, and no allowances shown. So we can in theory get 12+4+23.5 minutes travel time from Ely to Hitchin, plus 1+1.5 dwell times, which is 42 minutes from Ely to Hitchin. Which is exactly the amount of time my originally quoted train took, albeit as 11.5+4+23 travel time and 1+2.5 dwell time.