ThisIsSurbiton
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There's other data to influence where to change - the 'interchange status' is a value between 0 and 3, and journey planners should prefer stations with a higher number. The purpose is to have people change at a station with more facilities, so usually the busiest. I don't know if any stations have ever been artificially 'downgraded' to prioritise changing elsewhere. I mean, New Street has fantastic facilities, but I don't know if I'd want to change there.Is the difference to encourage people to change at less busy stations?
It's a shame that the interchange times aren't varied by location rather than TOC. At Clapham Junction for instance, you might need more time to change between SWR services than between an SWR and a Southern. This could have been done by using the more specific TIPLOC location codes that are the basis of the timetable, sprawling stations having more codes. (I realise I have just done a "PIN number" there.)