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Oof! That’s quite a long day. Interesting choices, and thanks for the response!

Ooh, awesome! Yes, please do have a look through your notes; I'd be interested in which routes you chose and anything noteworthy you could share.

I found this old thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/london-terminals-to-windsor.219652/ including this tidbit: "A ticket to Datchet used to be the workaround if you wanted to travel one way and return the other. Unfortunately there's a negative easement preventing this nowadays...

It would certainly feel more like using the “real” London Terminal, not the little kiddy table in the cellar.

What kind of ticket would be appropriate for this journey? Is there a "boundary zone 6 to either Windsor station" return ticket? 1721750366 Ah, is that a London Terminal of its own? 1721750403 Thanks!

Thank you for looking those up!

Yes; I would count Overground (and Elizabeth Line, and Thameslink for that matter) as National Rail for this purpose. Although going through any of the Core routes does feel a little bit like cheating! You’re meant to approach the Terminals from the outside. I see. Very true! And you also...

I don't think you can get from, say, Paddington to Clapham Junction without leaving the Zones, can you? Ah, I hadn’t thought of that possibility. Thanks! And then via Willesden Junction and the Watford DC line back into Euston? That would save quite a bit of a journey. Is there any shortcut...

Would it be possible to travel from one London Terminal to another and visit all of them, without using the Underground, using only National Rail, in a terminal–connection–terminal–connection–terminal… journey? (Ideally, with the journey into a Terminal and the journey back out on separate...

Is the logo of that second phase a red square, by any chance?

What is the purpose for the compulsory reservations on the cross-border portion?

If we also count rival metro/commuter train networks, then two that come to mind are Bad Homburg (S) and Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim (U) near Frankfurt and Spandau (S and mainline) / Rathaus Spandau (U). I'm not sure why the U-Bahn line in Bad Homburg didn't connect to the S-Bahn line. For Berlin...

Last I looked (quite a few years ago!) there was still a surprisingly large German rail fan presence in Usenet in the "debx" groups (de.etc.bahn.*).

There will be no connection at Hamburg Hbf as the EC 496 does not stop there, so you're left with about 20 minutes in Altona. It will not travel as far as Hbf. ("Bypass" isn't quite the right word.) It's coming from the north and entering Hamburg from the (north-)west -- the side that Altona...

Is it not possible to make a door that is securely locked from the outside but can easily be opened from the inside?