On 23 Oct, 23:25, John B wrote:
On Oct 23, 4:56*pm, David Cantrell wrote:

One would think that the same would apply at Victoria then, but trains
there pretty much always leave from the same platform every day.
...as also happens on the commuter platforms at Euston. The general
pattern in London termini seems to be that commuter trains leave from
the same platform whilst intercity trains vary; I'm not sure why this
is.

The longer distance trains from Victoria are also predictable. *Not to
quite the same extent as the local stoppers, but still very much
predictable.

Aye, but the longest-distance Victoria trains are comparable in
journey time to the longest-distance London Midland trains ex-Euston,
not VWC.

Hmm, LM EUS-Crewe next year, but anyway

Victoria's longest (Littlehampton?) are longer than the Long Buckby
and beyond trains from EUS.

EUS - Northampton aren't bad (hour-long trips), and anything further
is "Long distance", given the throughput.