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    How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?

    What a stupid idea! So how are people who are travelling to the airport by train, but not from Victoria, supposed to get to the airport??? people from Brighton, Guildford, Tonbridge etc. idiotic.
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    Longest platform dwell time

    That’s not a platform dwell in service. That’s just a train terminating then going back the way it came
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    May 2026 timetable

    Didn’t the reading services previously stop at Vauxhall and Putney? Years ago
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    How could the UK reduce the cost of large infrastructure projects?

    Less corruption
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    Starting service with the front unit off the platform

    Caught a peak time 12 car 375 train from London Charing Cross a few nights ago, the front 1 or 2 carriages were off the end of the platform onto the bridge
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    Examples of Platforms built out over old tracks

    Kensington Olympia. You can still see the remains of old track and platforms where the current overground platforms were built over the top, especially southbound.
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    South London Lines/SouthCentral trains to Charing Cross back in the day?

    Services from Horsham also went to Charing Cross in the 90s
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    When is it all due to be complete?
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    Chiltern barriers programmed to automatically reject disabled railcard tickets?

    The barriers at Waterloo reject railcard tickets
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    Chiltern Railways officially announced as EWR service operator

    How is it going to be not until 2030 until Bletchley yo Bedford opens?? It’s open now isn’t it…
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    GTR Class 377/387 cascade updates 2026

    There’s been posters up at Tunbridge wells and high brooms stations, official ones from southeastern, saying “new trains coming soon” with pics of 377s. So they are, or were, planned for Tunbridge wells services
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    Malaga - Maria Zambrano station saturated? 'We must avoid dying of success'

    When I was there a couple of months ago it was really quiet! Only a couple of trains an hour
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    Trivia: Ideas and concepts that didn't work out

    Barcelona has them too
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    377s to Charing Cross currently

    Yes the Charing Cross to Maidstone east services are operated with 377s
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    Stansted airport

    Can you cut through the toilets?? That map kinda makes it look like it’s possible
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