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No they don't. When you hear "to regulate the service" what they actually do in my experience is delay trains to try and introduce a more even service. So if y
by joncrocks 8y ago
No they don't. When you hear "to regulate the service" what they actually do in my experience is delay trains to try and introduce a more even service.
So if you have trains that are:
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Then they will delay some of the trains such that it becomes:
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i.e. reduce the speed of the lead trains to try and reduce bunching.
So generally if you hear "to regulate the service" it means you're in for a longer journey than normal.
I believe there are passing points along the tracks, I don't think they can be used to leapfrog, and there's no such thing as "express" services.
- falsedan 8y agoLothian buses regulate as well, but only to maintain published timetables (if a bus is running fast, it will sit at a stop until it's back on schedule) The usual clumping is multiple buses on separate routes arriving at one, since they enforce strict stacking (can disembark in the approach to the stop but can only embark passengers at the stop sign)
- Mvandenbergh 8y agoThere are express services but only on the metropolitan line (which uses above ground tracks shared with non-TFL trains).
- joncrocks 8y agoAh, you learn something new every day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_line#Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_line#Services
- mcv 8y agoI've often felt that maybe the front bus should skip a few stops, but unfortunately, the fuller a bus is, the bigger the chance that someone has to get out at every stop, and that means people are going to get in at every stop too. Maybe the empty rear bus should overtake the front bus, but that's not always possible. Teleporting to a random stop would be really annoying for people who had to get out at the next stop. That's only an acceptable solution when the bus is completely empty.
- theluketaylor 8y agoWhen I was growing up in Calgary when buses bunched the lead bus would linger at a stop specifically so the other buses could pass and even out the ridership. The transit system even employed this on purpose at busy times since Calgary is such a suburban city. It's fairly rare in the morning for people to need to get off until a major intersection or light rail station. Buses were sent in pairs (sometimes three) to run the same route, leapfrogging each other at every stop. If someone did ask for a stop the driver would radio ahead and the lead bus would skip the stop. Taking the bus route at a leapfrog time really did cut the journey time down significantly. The technique doesn't work quite as well coming home since you can't predict when people will need to get off.
- zaphod12 8y agoThis happens with the subway in NYC all of the time - a very crowded train will announce that it's running express to X stop...a thousand people get off and onto the next one to continue on. It's quite annoying when it's you that has to get off and wait, again, haha, but appears to be the right move for the system