A (good) week on the railways

BerkshireBugsy

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A (good) week on the railways

« on: September 13, 2014, 07:57:17 »

Firstly thanks to everyone who helped with advice regarding weekly tickets from Thatcham (THA) to Peterborough (PBO)- in the end I did travel up daily - somethink I personally wouldn't have done in the darker months

I was expecting delay after delay but was very pleased to say the only delay I experienced as 5 minutes on a morning service from Reading to paddington (PAD^» ) which meant less time to get to kings cross (KGx) but I still made my first capital service to Peterborough.

So for the curious these are trains I caught (ill use abbreviations here having followed forum guidelines)

0547 THA to RDG^‡
0616 RDG to PAD
tube to KGX
0723 to PBO
Arrive 0738

Back

1646 PBO to KGX
tube to Pad
1735 pad to RDG (corrected! - thanks 8F for noticing:) )
1912 to THA

a long day but I have spent far to much of my life in hotels (and it was the wife's birthday this week)


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eightf48544

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Re: A (good) week on the railways

« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2014, 10:50:39 »

Not sure whether you went via Newbury on the way back because 17:35 from Padd to 19: 12 at Thatcham sems along time!

Assumming you did go via Newbury you travelled on 30 trains (6 per day excluding LUL^▸ ) so with only one train late you achieved over 96% punctulality, if you didn't it is 1 out of 25 and is still 96%. It seems you picked a good week as the MMA for Thames Valley is currently 87.1% and for FCC^▸ 90.5% but not sure if that's a weekly figure or MMA


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JayMac

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Re: A (good) week on the railways

« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2014, 10:54:57 »

MMA?

Do we mean MAA^▸ - Moving Annual Average?


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