Peter Smyth wrote:
"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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AFAICT from previous announcements [and the SL RUS], from the May
23rd changes these services split/join at Purley to reduce the
numbers of paths used into London Bridge.

However journey planners seem to show a change at Purley for all ex
Caterham services, wouldn't they normally show a service that joins
all the way through to a the final destination in 'public facing'
systems and printed timetables?

I expect that one of the trains will disappear from the 'internal
systems' at Purley, so this seems to be cockup rather than
conspiracy...

I don't think anything is changing. In the peaks they already
split/join at Purley. Off-peak the trains are separate, however it is
quicker for Caterham passengers to change at Purley onto a fast
service rather than stay on the all stations stopper.

Yes the only issue seems to be that the up peak 'joiners' are being treated
wrongly as separate trains, requiring a change of train at Purley.

Paul S