Recent content by JackTheLad

I often board trains at Waterloo when going to Woking that don't have Woking listed as a stop and is pick up only. Not only is a 159 much more comfortable than a 450, in my experience I am much more likely to get a seat than I would on a Portsmouth, Southampton, or Bournemouth train. The other...

Cheers everyone. It does actually look like an actual Gatso camera which obviously are speed activated. Maybe it’s set to 1mph so it picks up walking pace of the thieves :lol:

Just on a fast train between Woking and Waterloo and noticed there’s what looks like a traditional yellow road speed camera mounted on the wall of the substation on the country end of Weybridge station facing the down slow track. Anyone know why it’s there and what it’s for? I’m guessing it’s...

I noticed on Saturday on the quarter hourly Sevenoaks/Orpington to London Bridge Shuttles which was the only limited route operating on Southeastern that every train I saw had 2 people in the cab. I also noticed for some reason none of the PIS & destionaton screens were active on any of the...

Interestingly Albany Park had 6 southbound trains per hour for the last few nights between midnight and 1am, and 5tph between 11pm and midnight... which means currently it gets a way better service in the late evenings than it does in the busy part of the day. The Cannon St rounders are a big...

St Mary Cray's Victoria services are 2 an hour but only 10 mins apart from each other, leaving a 50 minute gap. Highly frustrating when so many other Victoria services pass through fast which could be alternated to create a more even service

Certainly true now the CST rounders are going from December

Amazing, cheers for this. I guess in it's converted state it never carried passengers?

Growing up in the 90s in South East London, I was very familiar with the slam door stock. However I've just been watching someones video on Youtube of trains running through Brixton in 1995 and there's what looks like a 3 carriage class 411 with no front gangway on the cab, replaced with a...

The lady is announcement veteran and voice artist Julie Berry. You will get people in a rush who will board a Blackfriars terminator at the Elephant and just assume it's going through the core, so "our final destination" on approach to Blackfriars isn't necessarily unnecessary. It's just...

The other big winner on this route is passengers at Swanley, who now have a fast service to London Bridge in 18 minutes

The timetable is now out, starting on Dec 11th. The new hourly service will depart Charing Cross at 31 minutes past each hour, fast from London Bridge to Swanley (shame it omits St Mary Cray), Otford, Borough Green, and West Malling. Taking 1 hour 3 mins in total to Maidstone East

St Mary Cray sees it's twice hourly Victoria services come within 10 minutes of each other monday to saturday, then nothing for 50mins. You do have the Thameslink Blackfriars stoppers on an even 30 minute frequency but that takes 45 minutes to reach town as opposed to 21 minutes on the SE Fasts...

Elmstead Woods station in SE London has a wildlife garden with fishpond on the centre island platforms. https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14040622.animals-find-home-at-elmstead-woods-station-after-gardeners-create-flourishing-wildlife-habitat/

Eden Park and St Mary Cray in SE London