duffield
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Must admit I can't see Berrylands Jn. at all - My rail atlas (S.K. Baker) doesn't list it in the index and shows New Malden Junction to the east of Berrylands station, and Surbiton, then Hampton Court Junction to the west.The issue appears to be Berrylands Jn. This appears as a timing point in all Up Fast trains towards Waterloo, however RailMiles doesn't seem to know where it is as any search to or from Berrylands Jn just gives an error.
But today the STP services to and through Woking from Waterloo *do* all seem to be showing mileages. Next Tuesday, not so. Sample service (2F19 0950 Waterloo to Woking) has 23 timing points shown today, all with mileages, but next Tuesday only 19 and no mileages. If I'd been guessing, I would have thought the STP entries would be less detailed in this respect and the regular entries more so.
Anyhow, that does very much illustrate that it's not actually the route as such, it's exactly which timing points have been entered for each specific service, and given that that can vary on the same route and even for the same service on different days, that would really explain why it has seemed quite random at times.