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It's funny, when I started reading this thread I thought I'd post about East Croydon and you beat me to it. I find it infuriating. With automated announcements people can put it down to IT issues. But I have seen platform staff (?dispatchers) blowing their whistles endlessly whilst pax are...

It has taken me 40 to 75 minutes to make the journey at various times. But generally Park Street to Tooting Broadway tube would be 45 mins once on the bus on a weekend. The quickest journeys are weekday off peak and very early in the morning or late at night. Tooting bound, issues are: 1)...

Weekends, the 264 can be held up around the Lombard roundabout because of all the traffic going to the Purley Way superstores (especially late afternoon). West Croydon station can get jammed too because of shoppers in cars.

I'll add that it is rather nice if you're on the top deck at the front as you go through Mitcham Common. I've reworded my previous post as I thought it was a bit opaque on re-reading.

I did this journey everyday for about 3 months end of last year - well, central Croydon to St George's Hospital to be precise. I tried various methods including: 1) 264 from Katharine Street (or Park Street) 2) Walk/tram to Church Street, 264 from Church Street 3) Various buses to Purley, 127...

I think these stories only work because they tie in with people's experience. Normal users have had some experience of railway officiousness (grumpy staff, weird ticketing rules, doors being closed in their face because it's 30 secs before ETD only for the next one to be running late etc etc)...

Many years ago, I would choose "network railcard" from the machine when I couldn't find "young persons railcard" thinking that the former was just a generic for different types of railcard of which the latter was just one and noting the price was always the same. (I know now that that was not...

I think people have low expectations of the railways, so are "satisfied" with less than what they would be in other areas of life. Ditto NHS, for that matter. Also where there is a subsidy, this has an impact. If people were paying the full price (or in the case of the NHS, paying at the point...

Not quite. The law still allows terms in the merchant agreement that stops a merchant charging cardholders more than what acceptance costs them. Separately, more recently, the law was changed prohibiting merchants charging more than what card acceptance costs them. So retailers are now...

You can pick up a refund at a tram stop. So that's "only" £1.45 lost.

The THSR was quite an achievement - extensive tunnelling was involved and earthquake protection needed. I've been travelling to Taiwan since 1995 and lived there for a while. It really did revolutionise travel. For the first time people living in, say, Hsinchu or Taichung could pop to Taipei to...

Agree with Holborn station. Also the new indicators on FCC (first saw them at St Pancras, but now installed at City) are often difficult to read. If they were tilted down a little they'd be fine. But as they are the reflections of the fluorescent light strips can make them impossible to read.

Elmers End was once Elmer's End. Disused Bingham Road station became Addiscombe when converted to tram usage albeit the track was dropped to street level and the station repositioned slightly. The previous Addiscombe (originally known as Croydon (Addiscombe Road)) and the stretch of track...