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Re: Old LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Oct 11 18:45:55 2013, in response to Re: Old LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Oct 10 17:22:11 2013. Worth noting here is that the padded schedule would not be as much of a problem if the terminal had a place to store trains while they wait to go out on schedule. The 7 terminal at Times Square, of course, has no place to store any trains. The trains could be stored on an extra platform or two, or perhaps on tail tracks.Also worth noting is that if the trains were held to the schedule, padded as it is, they would not back up at the terminal on account of being early. (They could still back up on account of being late.) If a train is scheduled for a 33 minute run, it should take at least, say, 32 1/2 minutes. That is an area where CBTC could perhaps improve performance by introducing a measure of consistency into operations; presumably, part of CBTC would be to hold trains to the schedule as best as possible all along the route. |
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