But you're right. (Real World explanation coming up ... Two Juliet one two has the road set clear through Hornsey probably to Kings Cross and is obviously running late. The initial '2' designates them both as stopping trains and what I reckon has happened is this: 2J12 has lost a couple of minutes somewhere and passengers for 2K20, the next train, are arriving at the station ready for their train, which is now being delayed by 2J12, which is now severely overcrowded as people jump on thinking it is 2K20. Despite the pleadings of the guard and the platform staff they will delay the train even further as they try to squeeze in through the doors and start arguing and remonstrating about having to get to work on time. Meanwhile 2K20 is sitting quietly outside the station virtually empty. By the time they get to Kings Cross there will be hundreds of irate passengers from the first train who are late and have had an horrendous journey. And a couple of minutes later there will be a couple of dozen, who will also be late, but wondering why their journey to work was so comfortable today! And those two trains will now be running late most of the morning and consequently delaying every other train that gets behind them.
Perhaps we should use simsig as a compulsory course to complete before we issue season tickets so commuters realise that sometimes it is them that cause their trains to be delayed.
So there
Ian
, your right the front was saved for the foamers, the more mature lets have a beer and laugh migrated to the middle of the train...nearer the bar !. Mind I didnt turn down my slot for the cab ride part, Nohab 567C loco, lots of memories of them.