Trivia: Instances where you have benefitted from a delayed train

[islandmonkey]

It's good news if the Romsey runner is delayed by a few minutes if I happen to need to change on it from the Portsmouth S/S stopper as they arrive at St. Denys at the exact same time (helpful....)

I know that I just need to wait another 10 minutes for the next one that goes the other way round normally though.

 

[A S Leib]

In late 2021 / early 2022 the Metropolitan line timetable had Amersham / Chesham services leaving Moor Park a minute before trains from Watford were scheduled to arrive, so I appreciated it when the former services ran a minute or two late (the current timetable is with 9 minute scheduled changes instead of 14).

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

The 350 bus from Hull took an hour to reach Barton last month, but the Barton train was half an hour late so all was well.

 

[methethpropbut]

I once made a -17 minute connection at Leeds off the 02:36 arrival from London onto the 02:19 departure to Manchester (approx figures but you get the idea). It helped that train #1 was slightly early in the first place, didn't help that train #1 went the long way round via Pontefract, helped that train #2 was so late the connection was just about possible, didn't help that my booked train an hour later was cancelled so I *had* to try the connection in the first place... swings and roundabouts