South Kensington station's escalator replacement project

Re:South Kensington station's escalator replacement project by jfindley on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:56AM (#28209322)

This is already the case for some of the very low-volume stops on that line. For non-express trains a combination of the following is currently (or at least was pre-covid) in use, with the mix varying throughout the day:

  * stop more or less everywhere
  * stop only at larger stations
  * even/odd stopping at small stations

The scheduling already seems pretty clever, and that's just from observing as a passenger. I suspect behind the scenes there's a whole lot more to it that's not obvious to someone who is just trying to get to work.

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Re:South Kensington station's escalator replacement project by noneeeed on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:19AM (#28209508)

Yep, there are whole departments of people who work hard to make the scheduling on railways work as well as possible. People always like to complain, but they always ignore the fact that the timetable has to try and satisfy a huge number of people with often very different needs, on networks with some very fixed constraints that are expensive and difficult to change.

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