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A few people have already mentioned Purley and Purley Oaks. They deserve an honourable mention for their bizarre platform layout. The Brighton fast line runs through both stations and they have platforms that are closed to the public unless a service is about to stop there (mostly engineering...

How tremendously silly of a national train operator. Naming an Intercity service after the cities it'll actually serve within its borders and not including other cities in other countries you can't get a direct train to and are across the sea. I definitely wouldn't call the ScotRail services...

The end cars of the 334s have 2+2 seating with armrests (but no tables). They’re quite comfortable, even on longer suburban journeys. I used to get them form Glasgow to Ayr quite a lot. The middle cars have pretty nasty 3+2 seats with a very narrow aisle. They’re not so great, especially...

Stonehaven is nice enough, and the fish and chip shop at the seafront is excellent. It’s not a station that the intercity services often stop at. It’s usually the local service to Inverurie that stops at Stonehaven.

Patrick isn’t unmanned – there are staff downstairs and they keep a pretty good eye on the security cameras. They don’t care what you’re doing, even if you’re standing on the platform for hours, as long as you don’t smoke or vape. If you do either of those, even out on the open platforms...

The "last ones standing" will probably be Anderson's Piano on the West Highland Line. It's a wild setup, but if it ain't broke...

Yeah, the new platform announcer is horrid. The old Ditra / Allison McKay system sounded much better.

You’re not kidding. “First’s branding of ScotRail” is my answer to this thread. National Express ran ScotRail until 2004. They didn’t plaster their name on anything – they kept the old ScotRail name and logo, and just changed the colour scheme. The average Joe probably didn’t even realise...

As someone who uses the trams when I'm in Edinburgh, and grew up living in Germany where most cities have a tram system, it's great. The fact that there's a massive free car park at Ingleston right next to the motorway and you can jump straight on the tram is fantastic. Cancelling the trams now...

I’m guessing “BER Airport Terminal 5” is the old Schönefeld station? If so, it was always a bit depressing and run-down. A lot of rural Hungarian stations are good examples of this, especially on the Budapest - Esztergom line before it was electrified and rebuilt a few years ago. You had...

At Paisley Gilmour Street, you can change for “the bus link to Glasgow Airplort”. Fletcher Mathers recorded every station name twice for ScotRail’s automatic announcements - once for the middle of a sentence or list of stations that goes up in tone, and once for the end of a sentence or list...

Kilmarnock. It’s a big station with two through platforms and two bay platforms. It’s one of those stations that was just never the same after the Beeching axe, with most of its lines closed. It has a half hourly service to Glasgow which is usually just a two-car 156 and is partly...

The Berlin U-Bahn has a station called “Gleisdreieck” (rail triangle) for this very reason. After a nasty accident, it was completely rebuilt as a grade separated crossing and the station has platforms at both levels.

ScotRail almost certainly won’t be adopting the new GWR style. They went through a massive rebranding, re-signing and repainting exercise back in 2010, when they launched the ScotRail brand and stopped letting the franchise holder make these decisions. ScotRail sign branding