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Someone Somewhere · August 9th 15, 01:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 8/8/2015 7:41 AM, wrote:
In article ,
(Charles Ellson) wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 23:14:07 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

BevanPrice wrote:
On 07/08/2015 22:03, Roger Lynn wrote:
On 05/08/15 13:48, Recliner wrote:

Having some trains going to Paddington and others to Marylebone would
be particularly awkward when travelling out from London as you could
go to one station only to find that the next train left from the
other.

Not a problem in Manchester, where trains to Liverpool depart from
Victoria, or from (Piccadilly + Oxford Road)

It's pretty standard in south London, as many stations are served by
trains from more than one of Waterloo, Victoria, Blackfriars and London
Bridge.

Some of the stations are served in both directions as well (e.g.
Lewisham, Clapham Junction) by trains on loop routes although the
displayed destination tends to be changed during the journey thus
preventing unwanted journeys by the pretty route. North of the Thames,
trains leave Highbury and Islington (also Canonbury) for Clapham
Junction in opposite directions; some are at identical departure times
(so you can choose the wrong platform rather than the wrong station).

They take pretty well the same time, don't they?

And isn't there an oddity that the fares are the same and you don't get
penalised for going clockwise via Shoreditch High Street?

So, they take roughly the same amount of time and cost the same and the
net effect of either is that you've got from Highbury and Islington to
Clapham Junction which is I assume what you wanted...