Unlikely I know but I've just had an odd experience on the Baker loo line, wondering if any mners can back me up

[StealthPolarBear]

I got on the bakerloo line northbound at Waterloo. Needed to change at Oxford circus. All fine until the stop before (picaddilly circus?) then at the next stop the automated announcement said

"the next stop will be Waterloo"
I tuned in but assumed I must have misheard. She then went onto say

"change here for...." and listed all the lines at Waterloo - I was following them on the sign.

I then panicked and assumed I'd done something stupid, even though logically I could see that even if I'd got on going in the wrong direction I couldnt be BACK in Waterloo.

I felt as if I was in the twilight zone until we pulled into... Oxford circus.

I was the only one who seemed bothered. I know what I heard but these announcements are automated and presumably are difficult to get wrong!

The station announcements are often out of sync. Both the audible and digital screen ones.

It's no big deal, the tube lines and stops are idiot proof.

It does happen, I’m a Londoner and have had this on the Victoria line. They just get out of sync sometimes, no computer or programme is infallible.

They’re often wrong, particularly on south eastern trains which pull into London and then go straight back out of it

Really? I've been getting the tube for years and have never known them be wrong before. Oh well I'm glad I didn't enter the twilight zone!

They are computerised. It isn't uncommon for them to get out of sync. I've heard it before. No need to panic, it is just a glitch.

In really not panicking, apart from anything else I'm probably 50 miles away now. This was intended as a lighthearted thread.
What a disappointingly dull explanation - my money was on alien abduction

I think Oxford Circus identifies as Waterloo on a Wednesday.

I live at the end of a tube line, not uncommon to hear a 'this is a [line] train to XYZ' announcement as we pull out of XYZ station heading back the other way. I don't think I've ever heard them get out of sync in the middle of a line before though!

This happened to me the first time I went to White City years ago! I ended up missing my stop because I was a naive 16-year-old and didn't know any better than what the announcement said because I didn't know the line very well and I trusted the announcer. By the time I got to the station and saw the sign I couldn't get to the doors. I had to go up a stop, then back down again.
No one ever believed me that this happened.

Phonic the hedgehog - love it!

That would explain it phonic but no one changedv the signs I guess that's literal violence.

I'm sure the most rational explanation is that either you briefly entered the Twilight Zone, or you experienced a blip in the space time continuum, or a wizard or ghost did it. It just can't have been a computer malfunction, because digital displays are always correct.

Like this morning, the display said that all the Thameslink trains were cancelled, then one turned up. I chose to believe the display and that the train was a hallucination, not to be trusted, so I certainly wasn't going to take any chances getting on it.

OK thanks for that. Consider myself chastised. Thanks.

Ah, I was only being sarky to raise a smile, OP, please don't be hurt by it.

PhonicTheHedgehog

'I think Oxford Circus identifies as Waterloo on a Wednesday'.

I clicked thinking this was going to be about the ostentatious nose-picker of Queen's Park ...
As you were.

Reckon I’d have assumed twilight zone rather then computer glitch too OP

I think you may have fallen through a hole in the space time continuum.

Either that or the announcement was out of sync.

I prefer the paranormal explanations personally.

Ooo glitch in the matrix👀

Where IS Stealth?

Is she lost in a never ending game of Mornington Crescent? I’ll miss that bear.

I am lost in a never ending maze with bright things jumping out at me
I'm in tesco. A big one.

Are there any polar bears in Tesco?

Ah no with your logical explanations, people! I wanted a proper ‘woo’ thread!

This happened to me on a train the other day. I go to station X, the other train that goes from that platform goes to station Y. They both go along the same track for quite a while and then take different directions a couple of miles before my station. I got on my usual train, then realised all the little displays were announcing that the next station was Y. I assumed i'd got on the wrong train so texted DH. 5 minutes later we pull into station X. Same as you no-one else even seemed to have noticed!