On Oct 22, 12:38*pm, David Cantrell 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.

At least that's what I was told by someone who used to work at Euston.

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.

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:22:29AM -0700, John B wrote:
On Oct 22, 12:38=A0pm, 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.

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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.

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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.

Paul Weaver wrote:
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.


Wrong 'hampton - it must be Southampton via the Arun Valley and Chichester
that is the longest Victoria service?

Paul

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:27:08 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

Hmm, LM EUS-Crewe next year, but anyway

LM EUS-LIV now. Not very frequent, but there is at least one a day
M-F.

Neil

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:54:05PM -0700, Paul Weaver wrote:

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

I think Hastings is a little further, at least in terms of journey time.
There may be some longer ones on the eastern side, I'm not so familiar
with them.

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:25:00 -0700 (PDT), John B
wrote:

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

ISTR that EUS-BHM on LM takes not all that dissimilar an amount of
time as EUS-MAN on VT.

Neil

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