"Boltar" wrote in message
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Not really, the staff were just being bloody minded. Besides which I
had to wait about 10 minutes for my train to show up in the first
place. Though thats par for the course at off peak times on the
northern stretch of the picc these days which seems to be run more
like a country branch line than a metro system.


I have a further theory, now that you've mentioned the line had delays. For
the benefit & safety of pax further down the line, where the platforms are
wedged with people whose trains haven't arrived, is it better to send the
'empty' train first, or the full train?

Paul S