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Posted by Fytton on Thu Mar 17 09:43:14 2005, in response to Re: London news, posted by Max Roberts on Thu Mar 17 09:27:47 2005. "...does anyone benefit from loop services? Schedulers seem to love them..."Apart from the two we were just discussing - Kingston and Hounslow - how many roundabouts are there in the UK? Well, there's the Circle Line, of course, though TfL wants to replace that with the Teacup Line precisely because of the timekeeping difficulties. There's the service from Edinburgh over to Fife. There's the terminal loop in Liverpool for the trains from the Wirral - but that's the opposit of the Waterloo example, the loop is in the city centre and the termini are in the suburbs. How many more can you think of? Mostly, timetablers just have to make the best use they can of the tracks that exist. Opportunities for building new ones are pretty rare. |
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