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Colin Rosenstiel · April 13th 08, 10:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Sarah Brown) wrote:

In article
,
Abigail Brady wrote:
On Apr 12, 12:00 am, Dave Nesbitt
wrote:
One delightful idiosyncrasy is that to get to Sutton direct from
Blackfriars you take a train indicated to Wimbledon, and vice versa.

This is one of these cases where the departure boards at Blackfriars
should probably lie about the destination, by giving 'St Helier via
Sutton' and 'Morden South via Wimbledon' (or whatever pair of stations
works out to be the best advice) as the destinations.

They do something similar with the Cambridge slows at KX, giving
"Foxton" as the destination (last station before Cambridge).

and finally, after much badgering by me, the slows from Cambridge are
advertised as to Finsbury Park and not to Kings Cross when a later train
gets there sooner.

The trouble is when there is bustitution between Royston and Cambridge
when the "Foxtons" need to be advertised at Kings Cross as to Ashwell and
Morden and not to Royston.

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Colin Rosenstiel