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Colin Rosenstiel · June 6th 08, 09:17 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Tim Woodall) wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:14:57 +0100,
Paul Scott wrote:

wrote in message

...
There's some very strange and very confusing "logic" being used by
London Midland to decide which train to display on the platform
boards on platforms 8-11.

I was able to deduce that you were describing the situation at
Euston. Not always easy to provide full information I guess...
:-)

Ahh, but I gave you enough information to deduce that. What I'd like
to know was what bit of information was I not noticing that would
enable me to deduce that the train on platform 8 was really the 21:24
when all the notices said it was the 21:34 (other than that I
couldn't find the 21:24)?

Perhaps this is part of a plan to reduce the peak time loadings. They
won't actually announce the peak time trains at all, just the off peak
trains going in the opposite direction (obviously not at Euston :-) and
then rely on the people who really want the peak trains to know about
them and ask. But then all those people who just turn up at a station
and get on a random train will stop getting on a peak time train and
get
on one of the empty off peak trains instead and then there will be
space
on the peak trains. ;-)

So you got the subject wrong then. Euston is run by Notwork Rail, not
London Midland.

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Colin Rosenstiel