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FWIW, here's that research I did [attachment only - sorry I don't know how to insert it].
Don't know if the linespeed has increased in the last 40 years. That may account for the slight average decrease in journeytime, although the fastest time does not seem to have changed much.
Doing a little research, I had a look at an old time table from 1962, and found the the quickest the British Rail timetabled a train from Portsmouth to Waterloo was 1Hr 39 minutes [ish - this is from memory, I'll check on Monday when I get back to my desk].
The fastest I can find for SWT [and...
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