"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:38:15 on
Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Roy Badami remarked:

I didn't realise that exceptions to the through train rule were
possible, but there is apparently a (fairly new) such easement for
some loop line (I'm sure others can fill in the details) to prevent
you from going the long way round the loop even though it's a direct
train.

"Customers travelling from Richmond to St Margarets and beyond may not
travel via Twickenham. This easement apllies(sic) in both directions."

...sounded plausible for a moment, but (eg) Feltham is "beyond St
Margarets", and it seems very odd not to allow travel via Twickenham (the
only other way is via Barnes and Brentford, but that's not actually a
loop).

Are some of these easements only put in for temporary purposes during
engineering works, to force the planner to send you only on other routes.
If the line was closed at Twickenham for instance? Clearly some in the list
are dated, but maybe many more should be?

Paul