Dave Arquati wrote:
Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
Jonathan Morris wrote:

TfL should be saying 'National Rail' services on all stations
with an interchange. It would certainly make more sense to
irregular travellers/tourists who don't really want or need to
know station X is for Virgin, Y for GNER and Z for First Great
Western etc. Anyone who does care will know anyway.

I disagree - a lot of people find the "National Rail services"
meaningless.

These are presumably the people who after more than 10 years still think
it's "British Rail". I bet most of them don't know the TOC names
either.

And TfL don't just say "other tube lines" for their own services do
they?

I'd agree with that. It might be a bit difficult at termini with a
very wide range of services like Victoria, but it would certainly help
to
highlight particular services like airport trains (e.g. "change
here for National Rail services, including trains to Gatwick").

One current example of indicating airport services is distinctly
unhelpful. The District Line diagrams in the D-stock trains show Ealing
Broadway as an interchange for "trains to Heathrow", thus encouraging LU
customers to go there and wait for the half-hourly Heathrow Connect
service, paying (not to LU) either an extra £6 for the privilege, or £6
+ penalty fare if they try to use a Z1-6 Travelcard on HC. The
interchange with the Piccadilly at Acton Town, where they should not
need to wait more than 5 minutes for a Heathrow train, is not shown as a
route to Heathrow.

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