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drum118 said:
Look at the times between stations.
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Look where? I am not sure what you mean? On the PDF's on GO website there are no trains scheduled to take 30 min to get from Aldershot to a station in Hamilton, it's always less.

Did you take the LSW train that day.and it took 30 min from Aldershot to a station in Hamilton? Was it just something that was happening that day? Someone above posted that "a block was down between Aldershot and Hamilton".

The photos show a train departing at 12:25 terminating at Aldershot and a train departing at 12:55 terminating at West Harbour. There is nothing in the photos your posted to say the train takes 30 minutes to get from Aldershot to West Harbour. That's why I was confused.
 
drum118 said:
Look at the times between stations.
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12 minutes by train between Aldershot and West Harbour stations. Or 20 minutes by bus from Hamilton GO Centre.
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Coolibop said:
The special constable has been there for months (June?). And I'm not aware of any intersection modifications allowing higher speeds....
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They were supposed to do some more scrubbing of the greenery, along with cutting back of the embankments back in the late fall. I've not been able to go through there in the light in a while, so I don't know if they actually managed to do the work or not.

Dan
 
drum118 said:
That maybe the schedule, but not the day I shot the screen
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I’m confused. No screen says the arrival time for an upcoming station on the line. You would never be able to find out how long the train takes to go between station A and B just by looking at a screen in station A.

What are you referring to on the screen that says the train will take 30 minutes to get between West Harbour or Hamilton and Aldershot?

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Willybru21 said:
I’m confused. No screen says the arrival time for an upcoming station on the line. You would never be able to find out how long the train takes to go between station A and B just by looking at a screen in station A.

What are you referring to on the screen that says the train will take 30 minutes to get between West Harbour or Hamilton and Aldershot?

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What are the times at the bottom saying???
 
The visual separation between Eastbound and Westbound departures is pretty terrible - those rows should be formatted to make it clear that they're headers, not just another line in the list. But even so it's pretty obvious what the departure screen is conveying.

Also, I've said this before, but for legibility they really should go back to alternating the text between English and French, instead of showing both at the same time. Having both on screen at the same time adds a ton of clutter and makes the information so much harder to parse. Most of the French on there is extremely simple anyway so even those who flunked grade 9 French class will have no trouble getting the info they need without necessarily waiting for the screen to switch back to English.
 
Today, I rode the LSW line west of Oakville for the first time ever and saw a baffling procedure take place at the Kerr Street crossing. The train stopped just before the crossing, one of the guys in the cab got out, and the train crawled across Kerr, before stopping again to let the guy back in, and then the train continued as normal.

Heading back east, no such procedure occurred and the train blew through the crossing at regular speed.

What was going on???
 
T3G said:
Today, I rode the LSW line west of Oakville for the first time ever and saw a baffling procedure take place at the Kerr Street crossing. The train stopped just before the crossing, one of the guys in the cab got out, and the train crawled across Kerr, before stopping again to let the guy back in, and then the train continued as normal.

Heading back east, no such procedure occurred and the train blew through the crossing at regular speed.

What was going on???
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The crossing failed. The conductor had to get out of the train to flag the crossing - prevent any cars from crossing while the train inched its way across to occupy it - and then reboarded and went on their way.

By the time you went back east the crossing had been fixed, and so trains could pass as normal.

Dan
 
Express service on a non-Lakeshore line would be game changing for GO. I'm still hopeful for Stouffville, but the new stations at Finch and East Harbour will probably just add more time to a service that's gotten much slower over the years.
 
canarob said:
Express service on a non-Lakeshore line would be game changing for GO. I'm still hopeful for Stouffville, but the new stations at Finch and East Harbour will probably just add more time to a service that's gotten much slower over the years.
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So far, Kitchener has express service too, but like Lakeshore West (excluding Niagara runs) only during weekday peak.

I can’t wait for off-peak express service.
 
canarob said:
Express service on a non-Lakeshore line would be game changing for GO. I'm still hopeful for Stouffville, but the new stations at Finch and East Harbour will probably just add more time to a service that's gotten much slower over the years.
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Express service on Stouffville and Barrie seem impossible to me, with a minimum 15-minute two-direction service and only 2 tracks. Stouffville already goes express at Kennedy.

From the width of the new structures on both lines, there's no plans for more tracks.
 
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