Jozhua
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TPE are, supposedly, resolving that over the next 12 months. We may then run into problems with lack of platform space at the Airport causing a back up of trains that may need to be terminated at...... ah! Leave half the train at Piccadilly.
Liverpool-Norwich is supposed to be 4, but often 2. At 4 it can cope for most of the day. If a TPE preceding service is cancelled or badly delayed even 4 is tight. If it is cancelled, or very late, a 3 car 185 from TPE is swamped. Northern get the backwash from this when a single Pacer in turn gets swamped. Smoothly integrated it's not. Passengers dash from platform to platform to find a train and possibly a seat.
Longer trains reliably running to time would quickly ease congestion as a virtuous circle developed. One day.
Yeah, unfortunately while capacity constraints exist, trains will get delayed. 13/14 are questionably workable if every single train arrives on time, but what they do best is exacerbate existing delays into complete catastrophes. Fixing 13/14 should help other areas of congestion and if those are further optimised, things might start to run on time.
Hope Valley is massively overcapacity passenger-wise, the journey times, unpleasantness and sheer cost of tickets make it hard to justify seeing my family in the East Midlands. I go back perhaps once every couple of months to see them because of this, and that's from someone who supposedly likes trains!