pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

so, the secret as to why trains always are super late to Latour de Carol is that they always stay in Puigcerdà for like half an hour?

ash

@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net

@kitten hmmm. single tracked section near there by any chance?

(I'm embarrassed to admit I'd have to check)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@darkphoenix all that line is single track as it leaves Barcelona

but still, there's no other trains running there, Latour de Carol is a dead end

ash

@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net

@kitten i dunno how much further it goes, i.e., it might have to wait for its opposite direction equivalent train to come in and clear the line first, if it's not short enough for only one train to go down there and back

ash

@darkphoenix@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net

@kitten and just in general, tbh, schedules on branches like that beyond the last chance to pass can be weird. i've had trains actually scheduled for 20 minute waits, like, as part of how it's meant to run, and it can break down very quickly from a single delay that it can then never catch up and that delays the next train, and the next,,,

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@darkphoenix it seems to happen in this line from the first train in the morning