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The headway gaps are likely for fitting in freight slots, since the late-morning off-peak is when the Readville yard-stocker job runs on the Franklin Line, with somewhat variable departure times from Walpole (depending on how much work the train has to do in Walpole Yard). The return trip runs in the mid-evening, also when the passenger headways are longer. There's even a couple slots in that period where trains turn at Fairmount and drop Readville altogether.The Fairmount Line will have 26 trips on weekends. Notabily 30 minute headways are only from 9:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 1:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. On weekdays 30 minute headways from 6:15 to 10:15 a.m. and from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. There are 50 minute gaps in service on the Fairmount Line middays.
This is going to have to be a concession until the state moves forward with plans to relocate the Readville platform off the Franklin-Fairmount Connector and reconfigures the interlockings so the freights miss the new platform. You can't have the single-track Connector occupied by too many reversing passenger trains when CSX could be running at any point during that 3-hour midday period.