Recent content by bennunn

Yesterday I did Caterham to East Croydon - walk/pint in the George - and touched in at West Croydon about 40 minutes after exiting East Croydon, to travel onwards to Epsom. It got me wondering if this would count as an OOS interchange. And if I had got a tram around the loop, would touching in...

It's fine now, but the thread made me think about Rugby station in the 1990s when the platform buildings looked like a dilapidated ball-bearings factory...

Whyteleafe?

If they're going to bother building something new, why not close Gunnersbury as well and build a single station between the two, on the NLL junction?

Much was made of this when the station opened, but in reality the service to and from Coventry Arena is entirely useable on matchdays - e.g. for supporters like me coming up from the South via Nuneaton. There is a train that gets to the Ricoh at, I think, 14:27 which is ideal for kick-off, and...

Oakwood? Roding Valley? Morden? Queensbury?

And, if I understand the question correctly, most trains calling at Warwickshire stations do not serve Warwick. Lincoln/shire probably also qualifies.

Though Portsmouth Harbour is well connected via the ferry and arguably more useful than Gosport station ever was. I visited Gosport a couple of weeks ago and was right in the town centre within 15-20 minutes of my train pulling into Portsmouth Harbour. Surprised at just how convenient it was.

Well, Crawley has a population of 100k+ and arguably suffers just as much from the main trunk route not passing through it. At a pinch, you could argue that Three Bridges is the main station for the town, but it is far from conveniently located.

Marks Tey?

Is it somewhere like Greenhithe that looks completely different these days?

Ah, thanks, that makes sense. I'll have to have a wander around to check it out. I'm not sure what purpose those escalators would really serve now. Coming in on Southern, I now usually go straight out of the main front entrance, without needing or wanting to use the lower concourse, and use the...

Getting from Euston to the centre of Birmingham or Manchester is already pretty fast. It can't realistically get that much faster. It's the getting from *specific starting point in the South East* to Euston and then getting from Birmingham New Street to *specific destination in the West...

It was a few years ago that I used this part of the station - IIRC, the ramps led down to an intermediate concourse level, with exits to the bus station, or to the front of the main station (I think there was also a walkway if you turned left going back towards the river downstream). I would...

Are the old sloping exits from the through platforms going to reopen? And if not, what will happen with that space?