I raised over £2,600 for BLESMA and the Gurkha Welfare Trust, which Bloomberg matched. I think the previous attempt failed, because it wouldn't touch the Chieftain and its limited stops means that you have to run a stopper either before or after, whereas spreading the stops more evenly might resolve the issues a mixed semi-fast/stopping pattern creates with scheduling consistent journey times. In September 2018 I travelled to America to the Grand 2 Grand Ultra, a self-supported foot race from the edge of the Grand Canyon to the top of the Grand Staircase - 170 miles (274 km). The mission in this landmark is to find the 'golden pigs', which have undisclosed amounts of coins in them. I think a comprehensive rethink of the timetable is necessary, dare I say even possibly altering the departure time of the Chieftain if viable to make it fit a clockface slot. In this episode Lee Chun Hee and Goo Hara join in with the cast as they venture through Suwon stadium. Now we have a messy, untidy and I would say even poor service from Edinburgh which now gets mostly stopping services, while Glasgow has a more regular and limited stop service which is usually quieter! The switch to having a mix of semi-fast and stopping services when the 170s were introduced in the Winter 2000 timetable broke the pattern over the HML proper, all that held was the departure pattern out of Edinburgh for a few years. 1982 & 1983 under the so-called "Tartan Taktfahrplan" were probably the closest, but some semblance of a pattern existed at various points through the 1980s and 1990s. Since the bigger demand seems to be on Edinburgh-bound services (the earlier Chieftan and the later 10:51), is it a shame that the timetable gives the passengers two Glasgow bound trains in a row (meaning the subsequent Edinburgh departure is the first to the capital for a few hours)? But then the HML has never lent itself to neat/ balanced/ clockface timetables, the planners don’t exactly have a blank sheet of paper to play with (given the combination of the fixed paths at Queen Street/ Waverley and the various single track sections north of Perth)Ĭlick to expand.It has been tried, there have been a few occasions where a near clockface pattern has been timetabled. I guess that if the HST programme had worked properly then there’d have been no need to ever run a single 170 on the HML, but given the constraints of the situation, this seems a decent way of trying to manage demand (with no magic solutions available) Seems a sensible idea, promoting cheaper tickets on quieter services and warning people about a busy one (carrot and stick), given that leisure passengers may be happy to travel an hour earlier for financial incentive
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