"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 14:50:21 on Thu, 3 Jul
2014, tim..... remarked:
7 minutes is utterly ridiculous!

for granny with luggage (nor unreasonable at an airport station) it
would seem perfectly reasonable

Everyone keeps overlooking that the 7 minutes in question is from
*platform* to *platform*.

I only overlooked it because the information wasn't in the post that I
replied to.

One should really take the effort to read rather more of a thread before
replying.

But even if I had done so, it was still someone's speculation that the
spokesman had used this "connections" time as the "walk from the TO"
time. He could have meant what he said (and it is co-incidence that the
numbers are the same)

Not from kerbside to platform.

How many grannies (with or without luggage) are *changing* trains at
Luton Airport Parkway?

How many anybodies are doing this?

Almost none. It would be for example the handful of people from outer
suburban stations who chose to change to an InterCity service (eg for
Leicester and beyond) there, rather than the more obvious Luton or
Bedford.

Precisely. So even more likely that he meant what he said

tim