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The stopped trains over to the right are probably empty and being cleaned, serviced and/or waiting out a time buffer before departure. You need time buffers, because without them delays cascade. Which means you need to have trains standing still and empty on a side track some of the time. If you don't have that, Bad Things happen to your ability to keep your schedule.

- Jake

Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jun 6th, 2012 at 04:37:56 AM EST
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The stopped trains on the right do indeed look like depot runs, although they look like intermediate stops (it's 50x accelerated so most trains stop only for a few minutes, and continue rather than reverse towards the station).

OTOH I think in-service trains stopping just outside a terminal station is near-unavoidable: when a departing and an arriving train stop at the same platform or their paths cross, a delay for the train scheduled to pass the 'exclusion zone' can delay the other. (Still, when I was in Gare St. Lazare, which by number of calling trains is like the busiest commuter rail station in the world, I don't remember seeing a single example.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Jun 6th, 2012 at 09:29:41 AM EST
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I can confirm that the area on the right is a depot, used to prepare the trains to the St Lazare station.

The exact place is called "Pont Cardinet". There is a huge real estate project in the area, that would involve covering the tracks, but I don't really know the exact perimeter.

A free fox in a free henhouse!

by Xavier in Paris on Fri Jun 8th, 2012 at 09:03:04 AM EST
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