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Originally Posted by Foghut
Thus it figures that it costs a TOC far less to cancel the odd service rather than permanently hire a 'Thunderbird' which is not often used (plus the incurred costs of driver training/traction refreshing).
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Train companies are more likely to have to issue rail travel vouchers for a cancelled train than a delayed train, so that may be the reason that fines are lower.
It's annoying that companies like Virgin and GNER aren't allowed to timetable their trains to take longer to meet puncunality targets, yet other companies such as Northern Rail and Arriva Trains Wales are. Arriva Trains Wales provide the most obvious example of it in the Manchester to North Wales route, whereby trains are timetabled to take 3 minutes to get from Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Oxford Road, but 9 minutes to get from Oxford Rd to Piccadilly.