In message , at 04:05:21 on Thu, 29 Dec
2011, remarked:
so on Sunday I took the train to Cambridge --
but that meant I had to sit in the narthex of St. John's College
Chapel for _their_ evensong because I'd have to leave in the middle to
catch the last(?) train down(?) to London.

The last train would have been _up_ to London. Trains normally run up to
London and down from London in this country, though there are exceptions.

Yerse... but students "go up" to Cambridge, and are "sent down" to London (etc).

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...ritish/go-up_5

As a Cambridge resident, I think I might talk about "going down to London", simply
because it's to the south.
--
Roland Perry