Try planning a journey from Euston to Watford Junction.
That works, but
- a Freedom Pass user needs to change trains at Harrow and Wealdstone (or pay rather a lot extra to go all the way by Midland Trains) and the journey planner currently returns trains that don’t stop at H&W
- or I’m meeting somebody that’s joining the train at H&W so I want a train that will actually stop there
So, now try adding Harrow and Wealdstone to the Via preference.
Initially it’s accepted:
In the same way as Unnecesary disambiguation in Via field - #2 by harry it hasn’t really accepted it as a station, I get a disambiguation request:
But in this case it’s much worse: the disambiguation stretches to three whole pages – and Harrow and Wealdstone isn’t even one of them.
Aha – H&W is geographically outside London (even though it’s a TFL station, so ought to be considered as part of London) so I try again setting the Outside London flag. It makes no difference.
Ah, but … it can be made to work with a bit of Mind Over Matter. Yes, you can have H&W as a Via – provided you refuse the proposed “Harrow & Wealdstone” station and manually retype it as "Harrow and Wealdstone. And no, it doesn’t accept it straight off and plan a journey – but it does at least now show H&W in the second disambiguation list.
I suggest there’s something wrong with the initial disambiguation, that either should enter the selection using and rather than &, or that the second disambiguation should understand and and & as synonyms of each other and skip straight through.
