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« Reply #150 on: Today at 14:08:26 »
Quote from: Worcester_Passenger on Today at 13:45:08
Though why any scheduling system would have three separate TMs▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) (Paddington - Reading - Shrub Hill - Great Malvern) for a journey that is 2:22 long is beyond me.

Sadly that's what the computer churns out these days.  Works on paper, but not in practice as soon as anything goes wrong.  The powers that be, don't seem to get it unfortunately.
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« Reply #151 on: Today at 14:50:49 »
As you say, a journey of that length with three pieces of work is best described as "vulnerable".  But I would have expected the software to flag it as a potential issue. Alas, I'd fear that the report of the scheduling efficiency statistics wouldn't notice the shortness of the pieces - they'd be lost in any overall average.

It's odd that it's only a one-way cancellation - does this duty not go back to Reading at some stage?
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