On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:15:00 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

TimB wrote:

One thing that amazes me is that, whereas the Germans et al allocate
platform numbers for the whole year, in Britain we make it up day by
day.

It's because the Germans are so terrified of a train being late that they
allocate about 5 minutes of what we call "Charter Time" between every single
pair of stations.


Nonsense!

DB timekeeping these days is at least as bad as various TOCs here, and
has been since reunification. Admittedly, it was generally pretty good
up to that point.


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