Flinders Street trains show more stops after Flinders

[David Coles]

For example, Sunday Timetable from Ringwood East:
http://melbtransit.appspot.com/train/lilydale/sun/inbound/31
    2:12 Flinders Street. All stations → Flinders Street

This train actually terminates at Parliament.

[Matt Giuca (mgiuca)]

Actually if you look closely, that train runs direct to Flinders Street, then continues to Parliament. So technically it would be shown on the displays as "All stations to Flinders Street". The fact that it continues to Parliament is not normally shown on the displays.

So this "bug" is actually caused by a special case in the code -- I deliberately detected services like this and turned them into Flinders Street trains, as otherwise it would read "stops all stations to Parliament" which is just confusing.

I think though this is still a bug (so I'll keep it undecided for now) -- you were confused by the actual service listing going to Parliament (that's straight out of the official timetable). I might just snip the end off once it gets to Flinders, and if you want to go to Parliament you can find the same data on an outbound train, I think.

[David Coles (dcoles)]

Hmm. Good point. I notice that the Metlink App also shows the additional stops.

Perhaps there is a nice way of explaining it, similar to the distinction between "All stations direct to Flinders street" versus "All stations to Flinders street via the city loop".