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[email protected] · November 19th 15, 12:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 06:18:09 -0600
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In article , d () wrote:
Even so, there's still no excuse for the **** poor service speeds. I've
been in a 378 when the driver was obviously running late and they can
get up and go when they need to. The trains arn't at fault - the
drivers are. Also quite why the drivers feel they need to creep into
every station at 10mph beats me quite frankly. The ELL needs ATO and
fast.

Are you suggesting the drivers set the timetables? That's what they have
to drive the trains to. So perhaps you are pointing the finger in the
wrong direction?

I imagine there's a certain amount of leaway built into the timetable
to allow for the idiotic decision to link it into the southern network
with all the vaguaries of the trains there. And I get the feeling the
drivers use that leaway to the max. They really do drive dog slow a lot of
the time. It really should have been kept as a self contained tube line
with a once every 2 min service from highbury to new cross(gate) with
better interchange facilities at the 2 southern stations.

An alternative view is that eventually we will have to grasp the nettle of
getting the Southern brought up to metro standards. So we might as well
start somewhere and that is where we are.

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Colin Rosenstiel