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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ceejayoz on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:22AM (#27219731)
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.

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by secretsatan on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:32AM (#27219789)
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

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Re:UK Rail services to come under unified state control by ceejayoz on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:58AM (#27220013)
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.

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