Could anything be done to improve the reliability of the 7:12 Guildford to London Bridge, without scrapping it or changing its starting point to somewhere else?
In the last 100 days it has not run fully between Guildford and London Bridge, if in a few rare cases at all, 15 times.
It's arrival within 5 minutes of its arrival time is 49%. Most wouldn't go that way to London Bridge but if you use Sutton as the destination instead it becomes only 14. However, if you start it at Effingham Junction then it shoots up to only 5 that didn't get to London Bridge or 4 that didn't reach Sutton.
In contrast the 6:39 Guildford to London Bridge has only had 2 cancellations.
If the 6:39 is cancelled you can get the 6:58 and change at Epsom. If the 7:12 is cancelled, the next train to Epsom isn't until 7:58, as there is no 7:28 to Epsom. The alternative is the 7:10 to Dorking and changing there, not that it allows you to connect with the 7:12 further up.
The service that makes up the 7:12 should arrive in at 7:06, leaving just 6 minutes to turn it around. Prior to it there is a 7:04 arrival from Waterloo (7:02 in the working timetable). Should this train be 3 or more minutes late, which isn't inconceivable, they mostly terminate the 7:12 short. Today it departed Effingham Junction on time but due to the 7:04 running late and losing further time between London Road (Guildford) and Guildford, no doubt due to the 7:03 departure, which at some point needs to cross its path, the 7:06 arrived 3 minutes late. Once 3 minutes late arriving it invariably seems to then depart 4 minutes late at 7:16.
There has been times when the 7:06 arrival has departed Effingham Junction just 2 minutes late and it's been delayed departing Guildford too.
Would it be possible to retime the arriving train at all? The 6:39 is formed off an empty coaching stock service. It's due to arrive in at 6:02 but today arrived in at 5:44, as it did on Monday. So the service has plenty of time to recover from delays, prior to being sent out. Could they do something similar with the 7:06 arrival or are too many other trains in the way?
In the last 100 days it has not run fully between Guildford and London Bridge, if in a few rare cases at all, 15 times.
It's arrival within 5 minutes of its arrival time is 49%. Most wouldn't go that way to London Bridge but if you use Sutton as the destination instead it becomes only 14. However, if you start it at Effingham Junction then it shoots up to only 5 that didn't get to London Bridge or 4 that didn't reach Sutton.
In contrast the 6:39 Guildford to London Bridge has only had 2 cancellations.
If the 6:39 is cancelled you can get the 6:58 and change at Epsom. If the 7:12 is cancelled, the next train to Epsom isn't until 7:58, as there is no 7:28 to Epsom. The alternative is the 7:10 to Dorking and changing there, not that it allows you to connect with the 7:12 further up.
The service that makes up the 7:12 should arrive in at 7:06, leaving just 6 minutes to turn it around. Prior to it there is a 7:04 arrival from Waterloo (7:02 in the working timetable). Should this train be 3 or more minutes late, which isn't inconceivable, they mostly terminate the 7:12 short. Today it departed Effingham Junction on time but due to the 7:04 running late and losing further time between London Road (Guildford) and Guildford, no doubt due to the 7:03 departure, which at some point needs to cross its path, the 7:06 arrived 3 minutes late. Once 3 minutes late arriving it invariably seems to then depart 4 minutes late at 7:16.
There has been times when the 7:06 arrival has departed Effingham Junction just 2 minutes late and it's been delayed departing Guildford too.
Would it be possible to retime the arriving train at all? The 6:39 is formed off an empty coaching stock service. It's due to arrive in at 6:02 but today arrived in at 5:44, as it did on Monday. So the service has plenty of time to recover from delays, prior to being sent out. Could they do something similar with the 7:06 arrival or are too many other trains in the way?
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