Topic ID 6864
If you use Nationalrail.co.uk to check train timeables for a journey from Hertford North to Finsbury Park today you will get a response with trips varying in length from 1 hour 53 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes as engineering works means that coaches are being used. However, if you use the same web site for a journey from Hertford North to Highbury and Islington (which is further)you get a journey of 1 hour 9 minutes. This is because it tells you to take the train to Stevenage and then the fast service which Stevenage to Finsbury Park, direct, and the tube to Highbury and Islington. In fact the part of the journey which goes from Hertford North to Finsbury Park, via Stevenge, is only 46 minutes.