Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
by disabled on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:58AM
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LOL Switzerland (i.e. extremely punctual society) actually does this with their rail system. There is a time buffer in the rail schedule for each of the stops. If a train is running late, and is /expected/ to be late, according to the estimated time of arrival, the train adjusts its speed, going faster, to arrive at the originally planned scheduled time. Failures on the rail system are of course rare.
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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
by ceejayoz on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:22AM
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If they're way late, they'll skip stops too, so they don't ruin the schedule for the whole network for the day.
A few people in one town having to wait an extra 20 minutes ensures hundreds of thousands have a predictably on-time system.
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
by secretsatan on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:32AM
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Late at night, if one of the regional trains is late to a local hub, the local trains wait for it to arrive so you're not stuck getting home.
In general though, I'm so used to the trains being on time, I start tutting if it's even a minute late
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
by ceejayoz on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:58AM
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Yeah, my last visit to Switzerland they announced one of the trains would be three minutes late and apologized for the inconvenience.
Meanwhile, I've arrived in NYC fourteen hours late on Amtrak.
Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control
by KptMarchewa on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:54AM
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I think all rail systems have some small buffers build in.
On the polish site which tracks punctuality of trains, you can often see train delayed for some time, which decreases delay by every stop, eventually ending with smaller delay or on time.