Intercity110
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Looking at realtime trains today, i can see several as required paths that have been VAR’d, but then it doesn’t run. Why does this happen?
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Why VAR or STP a path if you then don’t run it?
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Most of them, i can see several FL ones.
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I just saw one on RTT, Vst that hasn't run
Edit: Forgot the link, here it is https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:80370/2023-07-25/detailed
Edit: Forgot the link, here it is https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:80370/2023-07-25/detailed
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So FOCs rather than TOCs, then?
Regarding the OP's question, it's because VAR schedules for engineering work are generated
automatically in advance (often several weeks in advance) and the system which does this
doesn't have any way of knowing if an 'as required' train will run.
In other words, a 'VAR' schedule is no more likely to run than the underlying WTT version;
it's just an automatic retiming to accommodate some infrastructure restriction.
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