When traveling abroad, stories sometimes come up about how they had to run at the airport because they were going to miss their connections due to delays, and the author has experienced this as well. The same thing happens in train travel.
Latency and connection waiting
If the itinerary only requires one train to get from point A to point B, the only question is whether the train will run on time. In many cases, however, the journey will involve multiple trains. If the first train is delayed, the rest of the trip will be affected.
Especially in recent years, delays are a major problem when trying to connect these trains, as they are increasingly divided into system divisions, i.e., instead of one long-distance train, each section is divided into shorter trains.
If the source train is delayed and the destination train departs at the scheduled time, the connection collapses.
In the case of multiple train connections, a disruption of connections can lead to further disruption of connections. In one case the author encountered in Sweden, the first train was 39 minutes late, resulting in a series of connection disruptions that eventually grew to a delay of more than two hours.
This is where “waiting for connection” comes in. In other words, when the train from which you are connecting is delayed, the train to which you are connecting waits for your departure.
When a connecting train is delayed, the conductor may announce, “The conductor will now go around the train, so please let us know if you are connecting to XX. On the other hand, when a connecting train is delayed, the conductor may announce, “We are waiting for passengers from train XX, so the departure will be delayed.
While this will hopefully avoid the collapse of connections, there is the problem of spillover delays. This is because delays caused by waiting for a connection will lead to further waiting for a connection at the destination.
For example, if an up train of the Tokaido/Sanyo Shinkansen waits at Hakata, Kokura, or Okayama to connect to a delayed limited express train on a conventional line, it will affect the rest of the line. Because the Shinkansen runs over a wide area, the impact of the Shinkansen is also wide-ranging.
In an extreme case, if a conventional train leaving Tokyo Station has to wait for a connection due to delays in Kyushu, will the passengers on the other end of the line be satisfied with the delay?
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