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What's wrong with consulting a timetable?<br>
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Maps show you where you can go, timetables tell you when .<br>
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DaveF <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/06/2021 01:18, Michael Tsang
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">> I think you are missing the
point that GB is not a city.</span><br>
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> Cities are densly pack and urban transport systems
reflect this. In<br>
London tube trains simply stop at every station.<br>
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> This structure will not work when it comes to rural
stations, and what<br>
we have works very well. It would not be efficient to stop
every trains<br>
at stations which only have a few dozen passengers in a
day.<br>
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Other European countries are doing it much better. The
routes are numbered. There are designated express services
with stops only in big cities. The rural stations have
only local stopping services which call at every stop
en-route.
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<div class="PlainText" dir="auto">We don't even have a
useful route map from train companies that can work out
which train I should take without consulting the
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