On 22 Oct, 06:31, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:22:02 +0100, Barry Salter

wrote:
Allegedly the "farce" you mention at Euston is deliberate, in case sets
need to be swapped for whatever reason. If the peak services "always"
departed from the same platforms, then it'd cause even more chaos if
they did need to swap a set out, as they'd have to get all of the
regulars off of the "wrong" platform.

This is probably the reason, but it isn't a good one. *Platform
alterations happen all the time in other stations, and do not
generally cause "chaos".

In Germany they are sufficiently confident in their system to print
the platforms on the Abfahrt (departure) and Ankunft (arrival)
posters, and on www.bahn.de tickets. I have only once had a platform
change ... and that was because the preordained track was up for
renewal.

Is there any reason at all, except incompetence, why British railways
could not do the same?

Ian