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Ockley was served by alternate services from London Bridge via Tulse Hill and Sutton (89) that ran hourly, and Waterloo via Worcester Park (17) that also ran hourly to give a half hourly service until the recast service of July 10th 1967. There was no service from Victoria apart from the fast...

Monty - thank you for your attenuation of my, shall we say, passionately put views and for the excellent job you do on behalf of all of we travelers. As I recall though, there was colour light signalling all the way from Waterloo to Hampton Court junction since before I started traveling in...

Thank you for asking for a proposal. My suggestion is that the Cobham line is put back on the fast tracks between Waterloo and Surbiton. This is where it started in the 1920s and where it stayed for the main part for the next 70 years - except in 1967 when some bright spark had the idea of...

I am really confused by this thread. Up until July 10th, 1967 when the infamous new timetable was introduced, I took the 07:10 from Guildford to Waterloo via Cobham every morning. It stopped at Clapham Junction P8 at 07:58. And it was nearly always dead on time enabling me to catch the 07:59 to...