Best time to drive

My personal preference is for lates (as you'll probably guess by the posting times of most of my posts!)

I don't know why, but I've always preferred doing lates, even when I worked on the buses many years ago!
Maybe it's because I have a nasty tendency to sleep in for early shifts, no matter how early I go to bed, or how many alarm clocks I set! ;D

I'm with Alan all the way (including the bus bit). I can't get up early no matter how hard I try !!

As i've mentioned elsewhere, Friday and Saturday nights can be a pain - but on the whole, driving in the evening is more relaxing than daytime.

Most passengers are not in a rush like the 9 to 5 commuters, and there's not so many tourists trying to board in groups of 30 through only one of the twenty four doorways.

There's also less trains about, which reduces the amount of red signals a driver could accidentally pass - and that's another reason to avoid earlies, passing a red signal will definitely wake you up !!

Yes, Lates, though in the old days when you were paid right through for spreadovers (do they still do that?) there was something satisfying in going home and doing jobs like fixing the car in the middle of the day knowing you were being paid for it ;D ;D ;D

Yes, most depots have 'The Mafia' which does that. Acton District has family friendly rosters, that has the same affect, however you choose a link, and get anything on that particular link.

For example Dave's link is anything between 0632 (and thats a killer! ) and 2230 iirc?

Personally, not being a Train Operator yet I would more or less prefer earlies.

I'm one of these 'Early Bird Catches The Worm' people, I'd like to start early and leave early in the morning/midday, leaving the afternoon for anything else and then off to sleep early in the evening and wake up early next morning.

But like Alan, I have a Tendency to over sleep, at the moment I have 3 Alarm Clocks.

I have a normal Alarm Clock, one on my Mobile and I have one on my PC, they all set off at the same time and so far they've managed to wake me up spot on time! ;D

I'm an early man. I've never had any problem with getting up in the morning. I like earlies because the passengers have one goal in life - to get to work. No mess, no fuss just go up and down and get the days work done. Just like watching lemmings really.

Another nice side effect to earlies is that the early turn drivers are generally more friendly (present company excepted).

I suppose it because the late turn have to put up with all the drunks, fights, kids up the east end etc, by the time I've finished on dead earlies, these pondlife would still be in bed.

So thats why I like earlies.

Any of them, as long as its a snip