There are some occasions where there is a service from London Euston to Northampton and then a service from Northampton to Birmingham New Street. On Mondays to Fridays there is 1913 London Euston - 2011 Northampton and 2016 Northampton - 2116 Birmingham New Street. Would these two services use the same physical train? Would they announce it if they do? Or would I actually have to change trains there? (I'm thinking of using this service on Friday). Why don't they just make it one through train and advertise it as such? Another thread said that in a similar instance they are normally run by the same unit.
One other thing: monitors have an annoying habit of listing the incoming train as a terminator and then the next train as a train leaving the platform when they are actually the same train,which means you can't see the stopping pattern as they only list that for the first train shown. If I see the CIS say that the train to Birmingham New Street leaves from the same platform, but with the train terminating from London Euston that I arrived on shown first, am I safe assuming that it will be the same train? (There's only about 5 minutes connection time).
Does anybody have experience with these trains?
One other thing: monitors have an annoying habit of listing the incoming train as a terminator and then the next train as a train leaving the platform when they are actually the same train,which means you can't see the stopping pattern as they only list that for the first train shown. If I see the CIS say that the train to Birmingham New Street leaves from the same platform, but with the train terminating from London Euston that I arrived on shown first, am I safe assuming that it will be the same train? (There's only about 5 minutes connection time).
Does anybody have experience with these trains?
