"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:32:31 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:29:30 +0100, charles wrote:

I was interested in the announcment at Waterloo "this train terminates
here". It would have been interesting if it hadn't.

Why? The train could be going onto other stations.

It would be more interesting if it did. The thought of it vanishing into
a pile of scrap at platform 12, is interesting, to say the least.

There are plenty of 'termini' where the train stops, passengers alight
and board, and then the train reverses and goes on somewhere else.

I think someone is making a big deal out of it being the service that
terminates and not the train.
I don't recall announcements saying "the train terminates here", only "the
service" or "the train service" terminates here, not that i use the trains
much these days.