Recent content by izvor

There's definitely scope for development here, particularly with Gatwick Airport expansion now set to happen. This has been discussed here on several recent threads. At the very least, a Strood to Redhill service could be introduced at minimal cost just by incorporating existing services, with...

Agree with this and your other points. However the "new" (present) site is on an even more challenging location, on a hillside and close to a short tunnel (the down platform actually extending into it). Maybe the first site was always intended as temporary? Or - another theory - there was a...

Trouble is, most of the time it's only a (very) secondary route so presumably low priority for attention, especially with all the other sections requiring remedial action across the region. It's only when there's disruption, like this weekend, that it reverts to its former mainline status and...

20mph has been in place for 2-3 weeks now over a long section between Edenbridge and Godstone (up line). 30mph in place for about 1 week now on down line over similar long section. This has been playing havoc with peak hour services on short turnrounds, with trains running up to 40 minutes late...

Interesting, thanks. I bet the diverted buses don't stop at Rough Common, which Stagecoach abandoned (apart from school buses) several years ago!

For a route diagram it's actually quite geographically accurate. What I do find bizarre is the description of London - Reading - Swindon (and others) as "infrequent". I realise this is some sort of regional or unit-specific publication (clue in the print code bottom right) but ... really...

Interesting. Balcombe station was resited shortly after opening, being originally on the north side of the Rocks Lane underbridge. Perhaps the new station (as described, with steep steps from the main road) was still under construction in 1846? I've never understood why it was relocated so...

That's a good'un. The stop used to be named "Paymaster General's Office" (unusual but boring) but as everybody knew it as the Squareabout it eventually got renamed officially.

Putting the hazard lights (4-way flashers) whilst moving along used to be an alert for any passing patrol cars to intervene to a PSV in distress.

Would say I'm 95% sure it's not on Marshlink, Uckfield or Dungeness lines, which rules out pretty much all of SE England apart from preserved lines. East Anglia, maybe?

Thanks for the replies. No one I know has been asked for their Travelcard when checked outside the boundary, and it would seem that this could not be enforced anyway, whatever the intention of the ticket.

Not ignorant at all, and you are spot on about the wooded hills and suggestions of gentrification. However the difference between this hinterland (places like Heathfield, Battle, even Rye) in social terms changes abruptly once you hit the coastal strip, notwithstanding @OptareOlympus's...

Stiege on the Harz narrow gauge, still there I believe?

Well this particular pedant never knew that! Thanks.

Can a Boundary Zone 6 to/from XXX ticket be used without an accompanying Travelcard? Would it be legitimate to purchase such a ticket for a point-to-point journey entirely outwith the London area? Apologies if this one has already been raised, I couldn't find an earlier thread for this.