Strange practice on NSB (Norway)

[EM2]

A Norwegian friend has mentioned that NSB now only announce and display a train number and end destination, and not any stops en route. Apparently, their reasoning for this is 'it's done by all operators across Europe'. As my friend has pointed out to them, the British certainly don't and nor do the French.
So, are their any European operators that do? Surely it must cause unbelievable confusion.

 

[jb]

Absolutely bizarre. (I live in Norway).

You should perhaps bear in mind that route structures are much simpler and fewer in number than typical for the UK. In particular there are far fewer variations in stopping pattern (so a train to X will pretty much always stop at A, B, C, D and E).

So even at Oslo S, the situation is not perhaps as confusing as one might surmise. Nonetheless, bizarre.

 

[EM2]

I had a look at a route map, and the one that immediately jumped out at me was Trondheim.
A train could pull in, and you wouldn't know if it went via Lillehammer or Tynset.

 

[Eagle]

Presumably the route number would tell you that, though.

 

[sheff1]

Departure posters I can understand, as the norm in most European countries is to be aware of the train number you want to use (on longer distance services at least) ... but not to announce even the principal calling points seems very strange. I have not encountered this anywhere else.