Which makes you wonder at how much projected delay at Kitchener is the cut-off for sending 3960's equipment as 3760 instead...
The majority (15 minutes) of these delays were caused by a CP train blocking the diamond in London, so unrelated with freight traffic on the Guelph Subdivision itself:
Well today the train was delayed again in London, and the destination has already been changed from Union Station to Kitchener GO before the train has even reached St Marys. I assume this is a dummy change which makes it easier for them to swap consists on the runs east of Kitchener.
Don't mind the mislabeled Stratford station...
UPDATE: a half hour later, the station labels have been corrected but now the line is missing west of Kitchener... I think someone's fixing stuff as we speak.
UPDATE 2: Yep. Stations/line are all fixed now, and a new train is waiting in Kitchener to fill the 7:32 departure that should have been operated by the London train. But for some reason it's showing as 6 minutes late even though its scheduled departure time isn't for another 24 minutes.
Universities don't start until 8:30 AM, so works very well for students who head to their parents for a few days, and then come back Monday morning in time for class.
When I did my undergrad at the University of Waterloo, hardly anything ever started at 8:30. Students and profs both avoid scheduling classes that early whenever possible. In first year many of my friends who were technically in the 8:30 statistics class would actually go to the afternoon lecture for the same course instead. Admittedly this only works in first year where there are multiple lectures for the same course. In later years I had a couple instances where the prof asked on the first day if anyone had a problem if we started at 9:00, and of course nobody objected.
In general, students are extremely reluctant to get up early. And parents wouldn't be thrilled to get up at 4AM on Monday morning to drive their kid to downtown London to catch the train either. I did once take the first GO train of the day while I was studying in Waterloo, but that was because I stayed up late, not because I woke up early.
The only way GO will capture any "going home to London for the weekend" demand is if they run an eastbound trip on Sunday afternoon.
Lol nuts. The via station does have a small lot, couldn’t riders use that?
Sure, if they're willing to
pay an additional $16/day in addition to their train tickets.