Recent content by BobSmith833

I've been looking at an old map of London from 1864, at this address: https://london1864.com/stanford61.htm Evidently this is an era when many of the railways we see today were built, while some others weren't. It looks like this map has some dashed lines included for those planned or under...

The same logic applies to the Waterloo to Vauxhall link on SWR though, that's still a zone 1 journey and incredibly frequent. The whole thing is too messy anyway, and attempting to predict what might be useful to customers is a fool's game.

I have been saying this for some time. It's probably time to retire the tube-only map altogether, it's not really useful in modern London, in which it's just as easy to travel around by train than by tube and often far more sensible than the options shown on the tube map (e.g. Queen's Road...

Hi, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I've just seen a map of the West Midlands area rail network at this Birmingham Mail article which shows a direct link between Smethwick Rolfe Street and Langley Green, via the curve that runs between the two tracks avoiding Smethwick Galton...

Some years ago the last train of the day from Swindon to Gloucester via the Stroud valley line did not stop at any of the intermediate stops (Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse). I got on it by mistake once, trying to get to Stroud, and ended up sailing through where I wanted to be and having to walk...

Incidentally, the article I linked above also mentions this: That might provide a lot more capacity over the Newcastle - Edinburgh route, although wouldn't help for the Dunbar to Berwick stretch...

Ah, so the headline is not really accurate then... "Fears long-distance trains might no longer stop at Dunbar" makes it sound like there won't be any.

https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/17433903.fears-long-distance-trains-might-no-longer-stop-at-dunbar/ This would create quite a crazy situation for travellers from Dunbar wanting to go south towards Newcastle. They'd have to take a train into Edinburgh, which takes almost half an hour...

I watched this promo video recently, and they make the refurbishment sound terribly exciting .. Then I travel on 455824 this morning and all it is is a new button on the door. Disappointing .

Apologies if this has already been discussed above, but does anyone know the effect of this on point to point season tickets within London? Currently I pay £48 per month for my commute, and my worry is that with TfL operating all lines, I'll have to instead get a zone 2-3 travelcard at a much...

Exactly, and that's what happened. I was wrong because the current rules I was wrong, and that's fine, but in haste I did think it'd be ok to do what I did. The 1930 was also delayed by an unspecified amount, because of course it follows the same track as the 1920 and when there's a problem it...

The gates were open, and there was no attendant there. It was the right hand smaller entrance next to the shopping centre entrance. I work in Wimbledon and make that journey every day, and probably more than 50% of the time the gates are open there after 7pm. As I said I usually have a season...

OK for the record, not all the responses were rude so I apologise if I've wrongly labelled anyone. But when I said responses were unfriendly, I was referring to things like this: and one or two other comments implying that I did this deliberately, or am not telling you guys the full story...

Thank fireftrm, at least you've sent a friendly response, unlike others who just assume bad faith for no reason at all. I accept I wasn't prepared enough, so that's fine really, it's just annoying to me that the whole thing was basically caused by the all too common late running of the trains...

Hi all This is a slightly unusual circumstance, and I may not have a leg to stand on, but I feel like morally I ought to! I arrived at Wimbledon station one weekday evening, at around 19:05, intending to catch the 19:20 Southern service to East Dulwich. My Oyster card had no credit, so I...