Long waits at Larbert & Camelon

[Wtloild]

I've been travelling from Stirling to Camelon & back every day for the last couple of weeks.
I've noticed that every day, the southbound train waits for a couple of minutes at Camelon before restarting (enough time for me to cross over the footbridge, walk off long exit ramp & cross over the nearby road-bridge).
Similarly, the return train pauses a similar length of time at Larbert.
In each case, the signal is green.
Wondered if anyone knew the reason for such long waits at relatively minor stations.
Is it just faster EMUs (365s) working to a DMU timetable?

 

[30907]

A random look at Realtimetrains eg
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G89384/2019/01/17/advanced
shows an Engineering allowance in both directions and a Pathing one northbound.
So unless there is an actual speed restriction in place you will get those waits.

 

[Wtloild]

Mystery solved, thanks.

 

[DuncanS]

Only introduced in December though, its bizarre that they moved the departure time for certain trains from Stirling to Edinburgh to 3 minutes earlier but then waste that 3 minutes sitting at Camelon station. Train still leaves Camelon at exactly the same time it did pre-December.

 

[berneyarms]

Perhaps the engineering allowance will be needed at a point later in the timetable period?

 

[The Planner]

Engineering allowance rarely gets moved, it shouldn't be used for fudging margins or adjustments for junctions either but it invariably does.