Three questions relating to services such as York-Leeds stoppers which at York are advertised as York-Burley Park and at Leeds are advertised as Leeds-Poppleton the logic being to dissuade end to end pax from unwittingly boarding a service with a significantly longer journey time than faster options.
i) Do services of this sort morph into admitting their real destination on announcements and destination screens once they have departed?;
ii) Would the real destination be disclosed at the departure terminus if the alternative faster options became thin on the ground e.g. evening/Sunday frequency reductions, multiple ad hoc cancellations/severe disruption affecting only the faster options?;
iii) If someone in the know had their own reason for preferring to travel by the much slower service e.g. guaranteed a seat or meeting up with someone joining the train en route, is there likely to be any staff resistance to them travelling end to end on the slow option as long as they have a valid end to end ticket?
i) Do services of this sort morph into admitting their real destination on announcements and destination screens once they have departed?;
ii) Would the real destination be disclosed at the departure terminus if the alternative faster options became thin on the ground e.g. evening/Sunday frequency reductions, multiple ad hoc cancellations/severe disruption affecting only the faster options?;
iii) If someone in the know had their own reason for preferring to travel by the much slower service e.g. guaranteed a seat or meeting up with someone joining the train en route, is there likely to be any staff resistance to them travelling end to end on the slow option as long as they have a valid end to end ticket?