On 12 Apr, 13:32, Sarah Brown
wrote:
In article ,
Abigail Brady wrote:

On Apr 12, 12:00 am, Dave Nesbitt
wrote:
One delightful idiosyncrasy is that to get to Sutton direct from
Blackfriars you take a train indicated to Wimbledon, and vice versa.

This is one of these cases where the departure boards at Blackfriars
should probably lie about the destination, by giving 'St Helier via
Sutton' and 'Morden South via Wimbledon' (or whatever pair of stations
works out to be the best advice) as the destinations.

They do something similar with the Cambridge slows at KX, giving
"Foxton" as the destination (last station before Cambridge).

Which I long suspected was the case...but it only ever came up during
a service disruption, when I decided to get confirmation from a member
of staff before jumping aboard the only train going north for the
foreseeable future. I noticed they do it on the GWML as well, with
slow London-bound services advertising as terminating at Ealing
Broadway instead of Paddington. Makes sense....as long as people know
it's an advisory of destination and not where the train actually
terminates.