Esker-pades
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Possible solution:
Stable a 350 as a hot spare at Rugeley. That way, if there is a delay, one just has to bring out the hot spare and run it to time back towards Birmingham and London. When the trains start arriving on time again, one puts a 350 back in the stabling point.
To make it work from a crew perspective, make the crew diagrams such that every crew drops one train back at Rugeley. IE: the crew arriving at XX:10 would work the XX:46 back, rather than the XX:19.
There's probably something glaringly obvious that I've missed out. What do people think?
Stable a 350 as a hot spare at Rugeley. That way, if there is a delay, one just has to bring out the hot spare and run it to time back towards Birmingham and London. When the trains start arriving on time again, one puts a 350 back in the stabling point.
To make it work from a crew perspective, make the crew diagrams such that every crew drops one train back at Rugeley. IE: the crew arriving at XX:10 would work the XX:46 back, rather than the XX:19.
There's probably something glaringly obvious that I've missed out. What do people think?