Hi all,
Yesterday I was waiting for a train on platform 13 at Manchester Piccadilly and an announcement was made that a delayed EMT service to Liverpool Lime St would be arriving on platform 13b (heading towards Oxford Road), which it then did! At the time there was a FTPE train, also to Liverpool at platform 14 (where the EMT would usually come in on) but this departed seconds after the EMT arrived on 13.
Firstly, would they really divert a (delayed) train onto a different platform just to save those few seconds it would have taken to wait for the FTPE to depart?
and secondly, how often does this happen, a north/west-bound train arriving on 13, I've certainly never seen it happen before, it is standard practice?
Any information is appreciated!
Yesterday I was waiting for a train on platform 13 at Manchester Piccadilly and an announcement was made that a delayed EMT service to Liverpool Lime St would be arriving on platform 13b (heading towards Oxford Road), which it then did! At the time there was a FTPE train, also to Liverpool at platform 14 (where the EMT would usually come in on) but this departed seconds after the EMT arrived on 13.
Firstly, would they really divert a (delayed) train onto a different platform just to save those few seconds it would have taken to wait for the FTPE to depart?
and secondly, how often does this happen, a north/west-bound train arriving on 13, I've certainly never seen it happen before, it is standard practice?
Any information is appreciated!