Hi there
I understand there is also more to sometime then it appears from the outside but why do they have to do ESC or any non-passenger movement shortly before a passenger service is due to cross the line? What's more important, delaying a non-passenger service or a passenger service? They talk about passengers delaying trains and they have a point but what about delays but non-passenger services?
I have two examples recently of this happening. Today I was waiting for a train and it was on time. They even had made the first automated announcement, so I know it was due on time. Then it got past the time it should have left and it hadn't arrived. I then noticed what looked like an ESC movement cutting across the line my train would take to reach my platform. My train left 4 minutes late as a result. This meant it missed it's slot into Gatwick, as it got stuck behind another train; the delay in total becoming 8-9 minutes. In turn this meant I missed my connection to Brighton and I had to eventually got a late running stopping all stations train to Brighton at 11.15, arriving into Brighton at 11.48.
Two weeks ago I was at another station and I was waiting for a connection going North. There was a engineering train in the sidings. After the train I arrived on had left and I waited for my connecting train, no trains passed through the station heading south. Just before my connecting train north was due to arrive, they decided to move the engineering train south, across the line my train. I even saw my train having to wait. My train was 4 minutes late leaving as result and delayed the train that was due in behind it because my train was only leaving when that train should have arrived.
Of course I have been delayed at various times stuck behind fright services heading south from Harrow and Wealdstone. It's a shame, they can't be overtaken because the delay usually starts at 2-3 minutes leaving the station and ends up being 10 minutes late as we keep stopping behind the fright train.
Kind regards
I understand there is also more to sometime then it appears from the outside but why do they have to do ESC or any non-passenger movement shortly before a passenger service is due to cross the line? What's more important, delaying a non-passenger service or a passenger service? They talk about passengers delaying trains and they have a point but what about delays but non-passenger services?
I have two examples recently of this happening. Today I was waiting for a train and it was on time. They even had made the first automated announcement, so I know it was due on time. Then it got past the time it should have left and it hadn't arrived. I then noticed what looked like an ESC movement cutting across the line my train would take to reach my platform. My train left 4 minutes late as a result. This meant it missed it's slot into Gatwick, as it got stuck behind another train; the delay in total becoming 8-9 minutes. In turn this meant I missed my connection to Brighton and I had to eventually got a late running stopping all stations train to Brighton at 11.15, arriving into Brighton at 11.48.
Two weeks ago I was at another station and I was waiting for a connection going North. There was a engineering train in the sidings. After the train I arrived on had left and I waited for my connecting train, no trains passed through the station heading south. Just before my connecting train north was due to arrive, they decided to move the engineering train south, across the line my train. I even saw my train having to wait. My train was 4 minutes late leaving as result and delayed the train that was due in behind it because my train was only leaving when that train should have arrived.
Of course I have been delayed at various times stuck behind fright services heading south from Harrow and Wealdstone. It's a shame, they can't be overtaken because the delay usually starts at 2-3 minutes leaving the station and ends up being 10 minutes late as we keep stopping behind the fright train.
Kind regards