Recent content by MalHT

The 1983 tube stock in use as artists' studio spaces are off Shoreditch High Street. Visible from the ground and from the East London Line (IIRC). https://goo.gl/maps/G577WgNKipQ2

Virgin's Pendolinos are really bad for this too, and the signal boosting conspicuously lacks coverage for Three and potentially other networks, or it at least did last year.

Southern seem to pull off a mostly white livery well, as do SWT on their express services. It can work, but it's pretty foolish when the cleaning facilities are under strain as I believe AGA's are. Not impressed with the decision to go light on TSGN and East Coast (though the latter is likely to...

Well, I don't want an argument. I find unnecessary announcements that get in the way of common sense as annoying as anyone else, but I can't imagine being dissuaded from using facilities on a moving train due to having to leave 'belongings unattended'. Then again, my valuables generally fit in a...

I've never been told not to leave anything on the luggage rack or on my seat between stops. How else would one use a buffet car?

I've heard Penn Station likened to Euston with similar disdain. The backstory of "knock it all down and start again" in the 1960's sounds much the same; would you draw the same comparison?

I've used Bethnal Green a bit lately and it doesn't strike me as that bad. This is the West Anglia/Chingford Branch though, so the standards aren't high. There are working indicators now and some okay shelter. Wouldn't want to be waiting any longer than necessary there, but I didn't feel unsafe.