In article <5sl33uF19hgvvU1@mid.individual.net> "tim \(not at home\)" writes:
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> As to the extended journey times, whilst there ought to be some financial
> way of compensating the passanger, the actual cause of the dealy is nothing
> to do with the train operators and everything to do with the HSE imposing
> unnecessarily 'safe' rules on engineering work that no other country in the
> world thinks necessary.
Except the Netherlands. Overhere the rule is that if there is engineering
work going on that there should be no train running on the track in both
directions. This resulted in reduced service early morning and late night
on some days on some relations. NS is considering bus replacements for
those services.
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