On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 02:57:08 -0000, "Tim Roll-Pickering"
wrote:

Graham Murray wrote:

The best one (possibly apocryphal) I have heard was a foreign woman at
Paddington who wanted to get to Turkey (presumably via Heathrow) but
was sold a ticket and put on the train to Torquay.

I've heard that one too, although at Waterloo and presumably hoping to get a
train through the channel tunnel.

When I booked from Liverpule Street via the Hook Continental I asked
for specific cities.