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Saw this on my way home this evening on a Southeastern train that was about one hour delayed. The flames coming out of the side of the building were pretty big as we went past; there was also a PA from the driver suggesting we close the windows for a few moments due to the smoke.

I had my first journey on a Class 810 today (810012 to be precise) and it’s fair to say that it wasn’t smooth sailing! First up, the horizontal PIS screen in my carriage was only half working, and on the half that was working the scrolling text was very juddery. There is a widescreen display...

There’s a set of advertising posters in between some of the National Rail platforms at Liverpool Street that are at least twenty years old. If you were just walking past you wouldn’t think anything of it as they don’t look remotely out of place, but if you actually look at what’s being...

I’m very supportive of TfL giving the Overground lines their own identity, but it is frustrating to see what often seem to be obvious mistakes crop up here and there. I happened to be looking at the timetables page on the TfL website earlier and spotted at least three errors in the published...

I was going to suggest Welwyn Garden City platform 1 as an example, as stopping trains use platforms 2 and 3 whilst platform 4 is used for terminating Thameslink/Great Northern services, leaving platform 1 with no purpose. However, I’ve just looked on Realtimetrains and as luck would have it a...

Not very often you get someone complaining that there aren’t enough retail units! I think it’s quite strange to suggest that they‘re making up the idea that there is congestion at the barriers, and that delaying when platforms are revealed is part of some conspiracy to justify the changes. As...

Walking past it this morning I thought it looked far from complete, as indeed was the case pre-Christmas and so opening in 2022 always seemed very unlikely to my untrained eye - echoes of Crossrail showing off stations that were nowhere near ready when the railway was due to open six months...

I know this is a whole can of worms for the pedants but I noticed this at the weekend too - the announcement shouldn’t really exist/be played for Walthamstow Central because the station is *only* served by London Overground, there are no National Rail services (you know what I mean) from the...

Having spent some time going back and forth on the Victoria Line today, I heard plenty of announcements from the automated announcer about disruption across various bits of the network (and beyond!). However, having listened to the variety of disruption announcements given/shown on the PIS, it...

I've passed through Moorgate a few times recently and have noticed that just before the escalators down to the Northern City line, next to the passageway that takes you towards all other lines for those that have already passed through the ticket barriers, there is a sign that has been partially...

The new southbound platform is definitely a vast improvement and I'm sure all the new bits will be quite impressive once complete, but the northbound platform looks like it's stuck in a timewarp versus the rest of the concourse now! Is there a reason (perhaps cost-related) that they've not...

Also a strike to 'signalling equipment' on the line between Diss and Norwich. No service at all to Norwich from London via Cambridge, and many trains from Liverpool Street also disrupted. GA on Twitter say that 'fewer' electric trains can work between Diss and Norwich at the moment (but also...

Are stations not able to shut up the automated tannoy? I'm currently at Ipswich waiting for the 13:44 to Norwich (yes I know it's 15:25), and the tannoy continues to sound off about all and sundry of train being cancelled. It also announced the arrival of a train to a platform five minutes...

Oh yeah, should have said I know I need to catch a train to Bank for Waterloo and City, but that's great then! Strange that the NR website doesn't suggest it as it's a short journey from it slices the journey time cross-London and the overall journey too!

Me again, promise I've nearly got this sorted! I'm planning on getting the 0909 from Ipswich, which arrives into Liverpool Street around 1020. The National Rail website then says I should get the 1130 out of Waterloo to Portsmouth, taking a Central and then Bakerloo line train departing 1030ish...