The two Edgware Road stations

[Hophead]

Emergency services are given a location code from a control centre- (staff shouldn't dial 999 except for BTP as controllers call direct to ambulance or fire control rooms) as well as the station name. They then go to that point (such as outside 17 High Street) Some stations will have more than one place and this will depend on where a vehicle is coming from or where the person is in the station. the emergency services will be met by LU staff at that point.

The Control Centre may well do this, but the general public will not. Those unfamiliar with the system may be unaware that there is another station nearby with the same name; the line may be bad; or the caller under some stress. In any of these circumstances, confusion is clearly a possibility.

 

[Mikey C]

Then there are all the tourists who turn up in east London looking for Shakespeare's birthplace.

However the New York Subway is worse. Most of the lines follow streets with stations named after the intersecting streets, so where there are parallel subway routes there are usually several stations of the same name space a few blocks apart on the same street.

And get off the DLR looking for the Beatles zebra crossing...

 

[Busaholic]

Emergency services are given a location code from a control centre- (staff shouldn't dial 999 except for BTP as controllers call direct to ambulance or fire control rooms) as well as the station name. They then go to that point (such as outside 17 High Street) Some stations will have more than one place and this will depend on where a vehicle is coming from or where the person is in the station. the emergency services will be met by LU staff at that point.

I can't say what happens now. The London Ambulance Service reported as I said to the coroner, so, if you wish to dispute this, please say so: there was, of course, no public enquiry, so we have to rely on the Coroner's conclusions. Please also do not confuse theory with practice: it is all very well 'mocking up' a scenario of a terrorist attack at 10 a.m. on a Sunday at Bank when everyone concerned knows it's an exercise. I was present at the Hither Green train crash in 1967 and NOTHING can prepare you for the experience, believe me.
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The Control Centre may well do this, but the general public will not. Those unfamiliar with the system may be unaware that there is another station nearby with the same name; the line may be bad; or the caller under some stress. In any of these circumstances, confusion is clearly a possibility.

It is somebody or other's law that, if confusion is possible, then, when you really don't need it, you'll get it. Just rename the Bakerloo station and have done with it!