DynamicSpirit
Established Member
Does anyone know why Northern Line on-train announcements name Euston station not as Euston but as Euston Bank Branch or Euston Charing Cross Branch?
I can kinda marginally see the point of it for Southbound trains since it could theoretically alert someone who has got on the wrong train (although any such people would have to have already missed departure indicators), but it seems completely pointless on Northbound trains to be told specifically that your train is arriving at Euston (Bank Branch).
Up until now I'd seen it as pointless extra words, but I realised yesterday it can actually be misleading: Yesterday I was taking a friend to Euston. The friend heard the on-train announcement that we were arriving at Euston Bank Branch, and assumed that this was not her stop since she wanted the station just called Euston. If I hadn't been there to tell her this was actually Euston station, she would have stayed on the train.
I can kinda marginally see the point of it for Southbound trains since it could theoretically alert someone who has got on the wrong train (although any such people would have to have already missed departure indicators), but it seems completely pointless on Northbound trains to be told specifically that your train is arriving at Euston (Bank Branch).
Up until now I'd seen it as pointless extra words, but I realised yesterday it can actually be misleading: Yesterday I was taking a friend to Euston. The friend heard the on-train announcement that we were arriving at Euston Bank Branch, and assumed that this was not her stop since she wanted the station just called Euston. If I hadn't been there to tell her this was actually Euston station, she would have stayed on the train.