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Also in Coach 1 of the 1800 this evening. Acceleration was good but just as we reached top speed had to start braking for the next stop. Better when the stations spread out further north, but as you say didn't recover much time if any.
Currently sitting on the 1821 Kings Cross to Cambridge just south of Finsbury Park. Driver says the train ahead in platform 7 is waiting for a driver. I think that train is the 1824 to Peterborough. Not sure where the driver is coming from but I sure hope he’s not on my train!
Would this also mean that they have to keep the barriers closed at WGC? It's a scrum in the evenings trying to get off the platform so they usually just open them up and my Key card doesn't register when they do this (not sure if it's because the barrier is open or if there are so many people...
It's clear to us that there will be more space and higher capacity, but to actually say longer? - I would think that your average commuter would expect more cars when you say something like that.
I saw the poster announcing the 717s at Potters Bar. It says that the new trains are "longer". Is that actually true? They are all 6-car, but I would have thought that the majority of peak hour commuters already catch 6-car 313s. Is the poster a tiny bit misleading?
Problems this morning down to the taxi booking system apparently - http://www.whtimes.co.uk/motoring/great-northern-and-thameslink-railway-chaos-today-down-to-train-drivers-not-getting-taxis-1-5579275
I've caught the 7.24 WGC-Moorgate everyday this week and other than Monday it has been fairly lightly loaded. I was quite surprised. I think people are still choosing to get the "fast" services.
I switched from the current 0742 WGC-King's Cross to the 0730 Moorgate a year ago because I was fed up with struggling to get on the Moorgate service when changing at Finsbury Park. If there is no benefit for Moorgate passengers in getting the faster service and switching then I think you will...
Also borne out by the replies to this Great Northern tweet - https://twitter.com/GNRailUK/status/994496119710380032
It's interesting that there hasn't been a similar outcry in the Welwyn Hatfield local paper - perhaps passengers there are not losing as much as Hitchin.