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Old October 25th 03, 11:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Spyke Spyke is offline
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As for Foxton, these are the slow trains which get overtaken by faster trains
before reaching Cambridge and listing them as Cambridge trains may mean
Cambridge passengers would use them and have an unnecessarily long journey.

It's a pity they can't do this with Oxford trains at Reading and
Paddington (announce them as Radley or Didcot). I quite often find that
when people come to visit me here, they end up catching a slow train
because it said 'Oxford', whereas trains to Worcester, Stratford,
Birmingham, Manchester etc often overtake the 'stopper' enroute.
Oxford itself is much better, as the display has sections giving the
times of the next fast trains to Reading and Paddington.
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