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Extraordinary how many of the people on this forum seem to really detest their customers, the people for whom, I assume, the railway system exists.

The BBC reports the facts. If the facts are uncomfortable, do something to address those facts rather than attack the messenger. If the BBC has missed some facts, such as the information that some trains were running on Boxing Day, then it was the responsibility of those TOCs with services...

Perhaps it was just this free on-line service, which automatically updates http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/ldbboard/dep/NCL/?ar=true

When a wheelchair user boards, please. There's a person on that wheelchair.

It's why all those statistics about how many runways Britain has built in the last 30 years are nonsense. So many were build in WW2 and the Cold War.

The recorded station announcements at Charing Cross has started to pronounce Gillingham (the one in Kent) with a hard G, like the one in Dorset. Southeastern's ontrain announcements still say Jillingham though.

Trials are always by people who were not there. If judge/coroner, lawyers and jurors were there, they would automatically be excluded from serving.

Often said totally inaudibly. Either there's no volume control or drivers don't use it.

They did in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_London_blackout I was on a packed train just out of Blackfriars. The train stopped and the lights went out in the nearby buildings. Eventually the train started moving again -- probably half an hour or so - can't remember exactly.

I've bought Boundary zone 6 tickets to destinations outside London from my local ticket office, but is there any way of buying them online -- I've never managed to find a way on the various sites?

The south-eastern edge of London has two places called Green Street Green. One is near Dartford https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Green+Street+Green+Rd,+Dartford,+Kent+DA2/@51.424725,0.2393939,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47d8b3e62bfbb5c9:0x4bf29b48af7caf3e and the other is near Orpington...

30 minutes according to the Quietest Route option on here http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/43968538/

I suggest you try using the station around 08.30.

I've never heard anyone use the term "Chunnel" in speech. It was used in some headlines, but a long time ago.

But they make a huge loss

On Friday 16 October 1987 we were booked to travel up the ECML to Yorkshire from Kings Cross at about 10.00 - but the Great Storm, a few hours before, meant that all services were cancelled (including suburban services to get into Kings Cross). British Rail (remember them?) managed to get...

Edward Watkin. Also a director of the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Nord, builder of Paris Gare du Nord.

A shaver socket, I think

The Humber Bridge was famously authorized by the Transport Minister, Barbara Castle, and the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, in 1966 in order to win a by-election in Hull. People in Hull complained about how long it took to get to and from the city from the south. It was only possibly on a ferry...

Took me 3 seconds to find this: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/modesoftransport/26168.aspx "The service is accessible to wheelchair users and cyclists and is open seven days a week."