"If you are not in the first five cars" of the downtown train, "you will not get off at old South Ferry, " the conductor warned on the announcement system inside a train.
The practice came to light after Ticehurst resident Robert Hare boarded a Southeastern train to Stonegate, East Sussex, but later heard an announcement that the station would be missed out.
Russia's foreign minister reacted angrily to an announcement from Washington that American troops would be sent to train anti-terrorist forces in ex-Soviet Georgia .