In article ,
devnull@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall) wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:14:57 +0100,
>     Paul Scott  wrote:
> >
> > wrote in message 
> > 
>
news:311dd747-5db9-4e0e-9504-a3b673736a78@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> >> 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.

-- 
Colin Rosenstiel