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[email protected] · August 1st 11, 04:45 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
07:17:26 on Mon, 1 Aug 2011, remarked:

I pointed out that there are two services, Inner and Outer. These are
slow Outers.

And a "slow outer" could still be regarded as a semi-fast.

To you, I suppose.

I'm becoming more convinced that "semi-fast" describes all four
services, and you only look upon them as stoppers because you've got
even better "fast" services from Cambridge.

They are all Outer services all of which skip Inner stops. So stopping
at all the Outer stations is slow in my book.

Only because you are spoilt by the Cambridge Cruisers.

Cruisers went when FCC took over. They are Express services now and they
are quite a bit faster than alternatives.

Same service, different name. They are indeed a little faster, but
their existence has rather spoilt your perception of what's a
semi-fast train.

Uh-oh! They are if anything slower. More trains now call at Royston and/or
Letchworth and end-to-end times are almost never as quick as 45 minutes any
more.

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Colin Rosenstiel