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Originally Posted by tkboomer2
.......................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.
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Could it be that the generous ATW timings between Oxford Road and Piccadilly are to allow for the possibility of a prolonged stop at Oxford Road? If you are to believe the public timetable, the xx.41 TransPennine service from Blackpool North to Manchester Airport is scheduled to overtake the ATW service between Oxford Road and Piccadilly so this timing peculiarity is more likely to be for operational reasons rather than timetable "fiddling" on the part of ATW.
Because the section of track between Castlefields Junction and Manchester Piccadilly East Junction is so heavily used some degree of flexibilty needs to be built into the timetable to allow for trains running out of sequence and this is probably an example of it. Surely Network Rail wouldn't allow Arriva Trains Wales the luxury of such timings on this busy section of railway without good reason...........or would they?
