Now that evenings are well and truly "drawn in", the problem of knowing how far you've got to on trains is affecting people travelling on Great Northern trains. Some of the stations are very poorly lit and don't have big enough signs with the station name.
There's a very simple solution, of course, at zero cost. The train company should just tell its drivers to announce each station - also helpful, of course, to people with eyesight problems at any time of day. Ironically, it's the most easily recognisable stations - Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace - that are most often announced, while dingy little stations like Haringey or Bowes Park don't get a mention.
One Palmers Green resident has been in touch with Govia Great Northern about the problem. The company say they can't do anything without knowing exactly which train is involved. She therefore suggests that the easiest way to notify them is to use Twitter. Govia Great Northern have a Twitter account - @GNRailUK - that is monitored continually by an employer. Every time that Joe or Megan or Sam log on or off they tweet to let people know.
So the suggestion is that every time a driver fails to announce the station name you should send a tweet with the time, direction of travel and name of the station.
If you don't use Twitter, there's an online form that you can fill in:
www.thameslinkrailway.com/contact-us/form
A reminder of the Twitter username: @GNRailUK.
