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Would this actually have applied to 'British Isles', including Ireland (both parts) as well as GB, as journeys covered by RCH rather than UIC rules (which would have applied for journeys to continental Europe)? Can anybody confirm this? And state when treating journeys to and from Ireland as...

Or I would suggest looking at a Travelcard for the appropriate Zone - will depend on what other travelling you do.

On a global scale, all time, I suspect the record will be weeks, not days. On a slightly different topic, in 1939, on the outbreak of war, BBC television was summarily shut down, mid programme. On it's post war resumption in 1945, they started with the same programme. So anyone watching in 1939...

Which is fine until the driver makes a quick get away, closing the doors and shutting down the train. Before everybody had got off....

The classic story - apocryphal maybe, but with basis in how it was - was of someone who went to visit their friends who lived up country in one of the colonies, and when it was time to return, saw that train was at 12:00, and insisted on being at the station in ample time, over the protests of...

The LCDR's Metropolitan Extension - from Herne Hill - was opened in the mid 1860s; at about the same time as the SER's extensions to Charing Cross and Cannon Street. At that stage there was no connection between the SER and LCDR; that came in the 1870s when the SER thought a connection from its...

There was a turntable, and loco servicing facilities, at Ewer Street, which I think lasted into the early 1960s, probably the end of steam into Charing Cross/Cannon Street.

And earlier - going way back - Circle 5, H&C and Dist to Edgware Road 5, District Main Line 6 or 8, Met 4 or 8.

Not when the line was built, and it wasn't on the 1894 map. The widening of the line into Charing Cross was between then and 1902: my assumption is that the turn table was installed as part of that project.

Looking on the NLS website, they have editions of the relevant OS 25inch plan (TQ3080SE) surveyed in March (which has the TT) and June (which doesn't!) 1951.

Having been looking further, at vintage large scale OS maps, etc.: In the mid 1890s, there were two turntables (one each side of the line) at Cannon Street, still on the c1914 edition, and both gone by 1951 revision. At that time (mid 1890s) lines from Cannon Street to both London Bridge and...

Yes, the turntable is visible. Thinking it wasn't built for anything bigger than a 4-4-0...

I'm not sure what the original plan was: how things developed in the early days - the 1860s and 1870s - seems to have been interesting. Worth noting that Charing Cross opened first, Cannon Street not for another year or two. And initially a shuttle between the two was sensible: the Metropolitan...

An W3W bad example is "There’s been a train derailment, on the Clyde", at likely.stage.sock - typing it in to W3W, it will also suggest likely.stages.sock, both in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire (though one isn't), and both close to a railway line. Only about a mile apart - but with the River...

I came across a Scottish post code, which covered two addresses five or ten miles apart - they were 'next door neighbours' along the road, there just wasn't anything in between (except moorland). And another couple in Scotland, both of which also applied to addresses across the border, in...

The Italians had built relatively short narrow gauge systems based on Benghazi and Tripoli, that remained separate, which lasted until about 1965. In WW2 the Egyptian Western Desert line was extended across the border into Libya, but that extension was dismantled after the war. Another Italian...

There was an equally isolated and short lived railway built to support the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868, running inland from the coast at Zula (now in Eritrea) - I'm not sure how far it got. Built I think with material supplied from India - the main force was from the Bombay component of the army...

While my 'living memory' was that we always (?) had TV - Black and White, with two channels (BBC and ITV - whichever regional company it was (and they did change over time)) - I do remember BBC2 coming in (still B&W, but on 625 rather than 405 lines), that we didn't have until we'd got a new TV...

I recall a presentation, when Gatwick Express was new, by the then area manager at East Croydon at which he said it had changed his number one complaint from 'all these Gatwick passengers filling our trains with their luggage' to 'all these half empty Gatwick expresses wizzing through that we...

T stock would I think never have run so, with its slam doors. Possibly some around of F stock, before it being converted to air doors late 30s. What did happen - well into my living memory, so into the 70s (?) - on both surface and tube stock - was in hot weather, the guard would keep his door...