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Colin Rosenstiel · April 14th 08, 07:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (R.C.
Payne) wrote:

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).

Rather irritatingly, this is not done consistently. I have been at
Kings Cross where a stopper has been advertised as Cambridge, when
an Ely train overtakes it (about a month ago). I don't know how
they determine which trains to advertise as Foxton and which as
Cambridge.

They are not always very bright about these things. Also, It's NR who do
the King's Cross displays, not FCC, so that probably doesn't help. Keep
reminding them when it goes wrong. It seems to have worked over time.

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Colin Rosenstiel