"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 17/12/2020 10:45, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 10:28:03 on Thu, 17 Dec
2020, remarked:
Leaving out the Moorgate to FP section of GN - even if they don't
include
the rest - is just cretinous and a disservice to passengers.
I'm not sure why it's worse than leaving out the Waterloo-Wimbledon (etc)
National Rail routes.
Another factor is that the GN&C south of Krapy Rubsnif has a metro-style
service where every train calls at every station. People trying to use NR
from Waterloo to Clapham Junction might end up accidentally boarding a
train that doesn't stop until Yeovil or somewhere like that.
That happened to me! In the days before the regular Clapham Junction to
Willesden Junction service, when the only trains which did that line were
peak-hours local trains, and long distance trains that used it as an
avoiding line, I wanted to get from Waterloo to Clapham Junction to get a
train to "do" the CJ-WJ line. I thought that "all" trains from Waterloo to
destinations around London (so not the Yeovil of you example!) stopped at
CJ. This one didn't. Its first stop was at Ashford (Surrey). I felt a bit of
a berk as it sailed through CJ. I had to backtrack, hoping that no-one
noticed that I had gone outside the boundary validity of my Capitalcard
ticket. I did manage to catch a later CJ-Olympia train so I still managed to
"do" that line. Of course nowadays, CJ-WJ trains are ten a penny ;-)