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Whenever I've seen 185s in there it's looked extremely tight, I imagine the driver had to pull up quite close to make sure the rear doors fit on the platform with a 158 there. Like others have mentioned this bay is used regularly both during the week and during disruption.

This is actually what they used to do a couple of years ago and it worked rather well since you could have 1 or 2 RPIs + the 2 ticket desks selling walk up tickets then the 3 machines free for people collecting (which is also a contribution to the problem since you get passengers unfamiliar with...

Every Saturday for the past 3 years I've been using Canterbury West there has always been queues out of the door for the 2 ticket office windows & 3 ticket machines, usually with wait times of upwards of 15 minutes. So if you arrive in reasonable time for your train you can still end up missing...

Canterbury West

I did think that would be the case, it has a very straight platform. So how easy is it to look back out the window and close the doors at the same time? Definitely safer with the monitors so you can see the back (better yet with a guard but let's not start that debate here :p )

Apologies if this has been discussed before, I was passing through Rectory Road on the overground and noticed unlike other stations either side, this one had no DOO mirrors or camera monitors, so without these how does the driver perform the dispatch and close doors? As far as I know the Class...

Definite: Wye, Chiham, Chartham on the Ashford Intl - Canterbury West - Ramsgate line Selling (between Canterbury East & Faversham) Possibly: Pluckley on SEML

I've seen the same thing with Southeastern's web only fares when they have a sale - sadly they stopped you putting a railcard on top of it (you used to be able to get up to 66% off sometimes!)

Provided both stations are within Zones 1-4 then there's no problem

From what I heard there's two different systems, there's one which SWT/EMT use that works ok most of the time and there's the original? The issue with the original is that it relied on CFC Gases which were banned in the 90s I believe, so replacement gases didn't work as well with the old system...

If they're like the 395 doors then they'll be just as slow as the ones on a Pendolino (they have the step that has to fold out)... After pushing the button when released they take time due to a second lock I think so often you see people push the button and nothing happens for 5-6 seconds until...

Kirkham & Wesham is, I think it was one of the first ones to do so - I think a lot of the Northern Rail ones are (they were the ones trialling it)

Ahh that makes sense! Thanks for the info! Out of curiousity, how much third rail got turned off since the trains didn't lose power at both Charing Cross and Cannon Street so I presume they have quite a finite control over the sections to switch off?

I overheard a couple of staff members at Ashford chatting about it trying to figure out why as well. Wouldn't surprise me if it was alcohol-fuelled given people would be coming in to London for a night out at that time of night (though it was a Tuesday and who goes out on a Tuesday)

Both times they announced they had to turn the power off was when we were sat at Charing Cross or Cannon Street so I believe it was they forced themselves off a stuck train outside London Bridge was what we were told and the police had to round them up.