Of course, European travellers have been accustomed to trains splitting for
multiple destinations for over a century. I don't know how passengers in
three- and four-part mail trains in NSW coped. In the Victorian context,
the dot-matrix internal displays should be used to show the destination.
There should be a fixed pattern as to which route the leading set proceeds.
The new electronic passenger-display systems should be able to show which
end of the train proceeds where.
Another major splitting example is in San Francisco: articulated trams run
in pairs (and trios?) to the ocean end of the tunnel, and split there.
-- Regards Roderick Smith Rail News Victoria Editor