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When the railway was originally being built, there was resistance to the LSWR actually going through Kingston. So the original at station was built for the same reason as the the current one.

New Malden: Opened as Malden New Malden and Coombe 1859 Coombe and Malden 1862 Malden for Coombe 1912 Malden 1955 New Malden 1957

No one has mentioned the DLR P89s yet. In service 1989 to 95.

I see from the notes on the railway centre picture of the day that these haven't gone down well with the locals of the Enfield/Cheshunt lines. The longitudinal seating is not liked and I don't blame them.

Fair enough, definitely accept that with Blackwater, less so with North Camp which has half Farnborough's numbers. It does lead to another point though. The narrow crossing at Farnborough struggles to handle the student numbers arriving in the morning, it takes several minutes for them to clear...

I use Farnborough and I am disappointed that it's not going to benefit from this. Unless I'm reading the passenger stats wrong then it's busier than North Camp and Blackwater, so you'd have thought it would feature on the semi fast service.

Yes, I know Sod Hall Lane well, it's not a map makers joke, although calling it a lane is being a bit generous. It's a farmyard track which runs on top of a causeway across the fields. I remember back in the 80s it was quite open and people did take their cars across the crossing, but these days...

If you treat the two WM trains brands as different operating companies, then the Wolverhampton, Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International corridor also has 5. Also TfW, West Coast and Cross Country.

It can't be that simple? I don't imagine that any passenger would accept that a class 350 and a class 185 are equivalent.

Preston stations new entrance made the shortlist for the 2017 Carbuncle Award. I can't see it ever growing on me. https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-2017-winner-announced/5089506.article

Wasn't Southport London Street absorbed into Southport (Chapel Street)?

Am pretty sure you can see Cannon Street from Blackfriars

Worcester Park and motspur park

I'm misinterpreting the question, but it's a Central class 323 towards the end of their franchise for me. They were fitted with TV monitors, and a trip along the cross city line with the volume turned up to 11 was not nice. There was nowhere on the train you could escape the noise.

New Malden has been renamed multiple times. Before it became New Malden it was always a variation containing one or both of Malden and Coombe. It was Coombe and Malden when HG Wells was writing about it in The Argonauts of the Air.