Kingston Dan
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My understanding is that the London direction is 'up' and away from London is 'down'. This makes sense when there were individual railway companies/groups operating out of a single London termini going to single termini in major cities. But now we have services running across the old company lines through stations like Edinburgh Waverley (and I imagine Birmingham New Street/Leeds etc) along with Thameslink where the same service runs on what would be both up and down lines on the same service (I'm thinking the Kings X - East Cost service to Glasgow which runs 'down' to Waverley then 'up' to Carstairs then 'down' again to Glasgow Central. Is Bristol/Cheltenham/Birmingham up or down? Does the Luton - Brighton line run both up and down as it leaves City Thameslink?
Or have I got this wrong?
Or have I got this wrong?