Why does it always seem to take so l-o-n-g to get past Tisbury? Quite apart from the station stop, there seems to be a boring dwell at the loop - double frustrating if the you add in other dawdles of London to Exeter trains around and in Wiltshire ... from 1L33, the 12:20 from Waterloo, today, as read off
Real time trains (this link will expire in a week):
* 3 minutes "pathing allowance" at Andover
* 2.5 minutes "pathing allowance" on the approach to Tunnel Junction
* 4 minutes in the station in Salisbury
* 4.5 minutes gap between arrival and departure from "Tisbury Loop"
From
Open Train Times, the setup at Tisbury looks different to that at other places trains can pass each other in the same region:
To my untutored eye, it's almost as if Tisbury is set up to hold a freight train or an
ECS▸ off to one side - in either direction - and then have a passenger train, for which perhaps a faster schedule is important, run straight through. The wait in the example train above suggests that, whist it can be used to pass passenger trains, it's far from ideal for that. Have I read that right?