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Assuming they can tell the difference between the two; fibre already gets pinched from ducts under the road because it looks like copper cable to thieves.

#NewBarnet - a mixture of ECML updates and people's haircuts.

That seems to be an old use of it. It's now apparently for Eurostar, or London Overground, and was used by Virgin on the WCML for a while (but apparently not any more, if Wikipedia is to be believed). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcode#Train_classes

I bought a single ticket to Welwyn North yesterday evening, using a ticket machine at Blackfriars Station. The barriers were open at Blackfriars, and the ticket didn't work in the barriers at St. Pancras but I was waved through anyway. Looking more closely at the ticket once I got onto the...

I used one recently for a journey from Paddington to Newbury one Wednesday. I picked it up, along with the tickets, at the FCC office in St Pancras, where it took the ticket office a good 10 minutes to figure out how to sell me one, but they eventually managed it. There was no ticket check on...

There are plenty of examples of rails being laid onto concrete slabs, eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Slab_track_at_St_Pancras.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_%28rail_transport%29#Ballastless_track

Thanks. Out of interest, when does the driver report that he's missed the stop? As soon as it happens, or does he wait until he reaches the end of the journey? I'm curious because of the lack of information from FCC when it happened. A short "Sorry, the train failed to stop, please catch...

It was displayed on both the ticket hall board and the platform board when I arrived at the station, at about 0757. At that point it was already showing as being 2 minutes late, which someone else has noted is not an uncommon occurence for that particular train. It remained on the platform...

Anyone know what happened to it? It just vanished from the departures board after a train went past - presumably that train was meant to stop but didn't. Also, why aren't there any announcements about where the train got to?

He must have been half asleep to miss the signs, and the announcement running on a loop. I forget exactly what it was, but it ran along the lines of "Welcome to London Blackfriars. Please note that we now have a new exit to the south side of the river"

Mmm. I haven't quite got round to that yet. I'm building myself up to it; if it's anything like last year, it will be a hideously painful experience involving a half hour wait while the staff member in the ticket office tries to wrap his head around a passenger record on the computer which...

Hi, I have an annual season ticket from Welwyn North to Elephant and Castle, which involves changing at Kings Cross/St Pancras. Typically, for the second leg of my return journey, I get the 1752 from KGX, which almost always leaves from platform 10 or 11. The other day, rather than my...

*shrug* As I stated, the station names were taken from the National Rail website.

Depending on what you mean by "English", the longest station name in English appears to be "Rhoose Cardiff International Airport" The longest station name in England is "Ashford International (Eurostar)" Then "Prestwick International Airport", "London St Pancras International", "St James...

Perhaps they could start with St. Pancras Thameslink: "This is a special passenger annoucement" ... pause to grab everyone's attention ... "please take care on the escallators" I mean, really?