Timetables here:
https://transit.yahoo.co.jp/timetable/25586/7951/29403?kind=2&hh=13&mm=18
https://transit.yahoo.co.jp/timetable/25586/7951/29404?kind=2&hh=13&mm=32
It seems like they… split apart and then come back together again???
Both leave Nishi-Maizuru at the same time, 12:37. The timetables are the same for every stop until Amanohashidate, where the first one says it arrives at 13:17, and the other a minute later at 13:18. Then the first one departs at that same minute (13:18), and the other one doesn't depart until 13:32.
Then the schedules remain different until both trains arrive into Yuuhigaura Onsen, one at 14:10 and the other at 14:11. And then both leave at 14:11 and again have the exact same timetable all the way through the final stop at Toyooka. Why do the schedules diverge and then re-converge? What's actually going on here IRL?
by frozenpandaman