I'm hoping that we can eventually convince them to run better than 30 minute late evening service. At 11pm, the TTC could run the subways at 30-minute frequency too, and have capacity to spare. They don't, because the quality of that service is defined by the frequency, not the mere fact that it exists.
I'm not seeing the trains being in order at all!
T-1
T-3
T-2
T-4
etc...
In any case, what you're likely seeing is the addition and removal of trains from service. They don't start running every train in order, and have all 12 looping continuously all day. They have the first few head out for early morning service, and then slip more into the schedule when needed until they're running peak service. Trains will likely only be going out of service at the terminals.
Further, (and I don't think this is aimed at nms anymore) in practice, "T-1" won't correlate to an actual physical train (like, train #2001) as they will rotate which trains have long days and which have short.
(11-04-2014, 01:09 AM)nms Wrote: Based on a quick look at the Base Service Plan it would appear that some of the trains will short-turned along the route. For instance, the regular weekday schedule (page 6), initially shows the trains following in numerical order from 1 to 12, but as the day progresses, the train numbers become jumbled. This would presumably mean that rather than following each other in the Conestoga-Fairview-Constoga loop, some of the trains are either being bypassed, or are inserting themselves elsewhere into the sequence.
I'm not seeing the trains being in order at all!
T-1
T-3
T-2
T-4
etc...
In any case, what you're likely seeing is the addition and removal of trains from service. They don't start running every train in order, and have all 12 looping continuously all day. They have the first few head out for early morning service, and then slip more into the schedule when needed until they're running peak service. Trains will likely only be going out of service at the terminals.
Further, (and I don't think this is aimed at nms anymore) in practice, "T-1" won't correlate to an actual physical train (like, train #2001) as they will rotate which trains have long days and which have short.