This is such a minor point that I hesitate to raise it, but I think there's a principle involved. I catch a train once a week whose advertised departure time is 0830. When I went to the station this week the timetable posters still advertised it as 0830. However, the platform indicator and the station announcements called it the 0831.
I queried this when my ticket was checked on the train. At first I was told that the scheduled departure time was 0830, but it seemed that the staff on the train hadn't been told either. On double-checking it was confirmed that the correct departure time was 0831.
Now one minute later is normally neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned, but what if I had been trying to make a tight connection? Or what if it had been five minutes later? Or one minute earlier, with the risk of passengers missing the train? Can train operators simply make unannounced changes like this?
I queried this when my ticket was checked on the train. At first I was told that the scheduled departure time was 0830, but it seemed that the staff on the train hadn't been told either. On double-checking it was confirmed that the correct departure time was 0831.
Now one minute later is normally neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned, but what if I had been trying to make a tight connection? Or what if it had been five minutes later? Or one minute earlier, with the risk of passengers missing the train? Can train operators simply make unannounced changes like this?
