I was talking once to a South West Trains manager at London Waterloo and asked him why trains wait so long as stations on Sundays compared to Monday to Saturday.
He said it was due to the fact if they didn't do that, they would have to keep retiming services due to engineering works.
This got me wondering. What type of engineering works takes place on a Sunday that would require such retimings but still allow trains to run over the lines in question? As in not have the trains rerouted.
For example the Weymouth train from Waterloo seems to wait about 4 minutes at Clapham Junction and then another 6 minutes at Woking. The Portsmouth Harbour train doesn't want as long at Woking but bar engineering works, such as today, that runs on a different line south of Woking anyway. It does however wait 4 minutes at Guildford.
He said it was due to the fact if they didn't do that, they would have to keep retiming services due to engineering works.
This got me wondering. What type of engineering works takes place on a Sunday that would require such retimings but still allow trains to run over the lines in question? As in not have the trains rerouted.
For example the Weymouth train from Waterloo seems to wait about 4 minutes at Clapham Junction and then another 6 minutes at Woking. The Portsmouth Harbour train doesn't want as long at Woking but bar engineering works, such as today, that runs on a different line south of Woking anyway. It does however wait 4 minutes at Guildford.