Old Yard Dog
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What is the point of running Oxenholme-Windermere shuttles if the train doesn't wait when the incoming train is delayed? Yesterday the 1228 refused to wait 4 mins for the slightly delayed 1222 Cross Country arrival. The reason is obvious - the unit had a subsequent 4-minute turn around at Windermere before working back through to Manchester Airport.
Why is there so little slack in the timetable? Surely a 6-minute connection with long-distance trains at Oxenholme is optimistic in the extreme.
Rather than face a 65 minute wait, I took a bus to Kendal and was thus deprived on my planned ride down the branch before the game at Kendal Town FC.
A similarly poor connection was discovered on the way home at Ormskirk, where the Preston train arrives at 1905 and the Liverpool train departs at 1905. It didn't wait. At least Northern had the sense to swap the one-car 153 for a two-car 142 with the Liverpool - Wigan line being busstituted.
Interestingly the various national timetabling websites were advising Liverpool - Preston passengers to take the bus to Wigan rather than use the Ormskirk or Kirkby routes.
Why is there so little slack in the timetable? Surely a 6-minute connection with long-distance trains at Oxenholme is optimistic in the extreme.
Rather than face a 65 minute wait, I took a bus to Kendal and was thus deprived on my planned ride down the branch before the game at Kendal Town FC.
A similarly poor connection was discovered on the way home at Ormskirk, where the Preston train arrives at 1905 and the Liverpool train departs at 1905. It didn't wait. At least Northern had the sense to swap the one-car 153 for a two-car 142 with the Liverpool - Wigan line being busstituted.
Interestingly the various national timetabling websites were advising Liverpool - Preston passengers to take the bus to Wigan rather than use the Ormskirk or Kirkby routes.