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London Bridge has one on the overbridge and another above the gateline to platforms 1-6

The American statistician Nate Silver was on radio four's Today program this morning saying that the surer people are about some statistical analysis the more likely the numbers are to be wrong. It's amazing how many people rely on numbers that have little basis in truth.

Do you need to choose one route? With an Oyster card you can try one, then another, then another, and see which you prefer, or just vary the route according to how you feel on the day.

The river Ravensbourne, to be precise, not a canal. the DLR station at Lewishsm goes under the National Rail station and aims direct for the A20 bridge over the Ravensbourne. Hard to cross without rebuilding the last few 100 yds of the DLR to raise it above the road and the river and the...

But did it really want to be connected, the psychiatrist asked.

Try this http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en put the post code of where you are starting and where you finish.

I'd suggest looking at Royal Navy wartime histories - must be lots of them around, especilly the submarine services.

The British Library nxt to St Pancras will have copies of most Bradshaws and other international timetables, eg. Thomas Cook.

No, it's a news story, about something out of the ordinary. Thats what news is. What do you want The Guardian to do, run a full page of all the trains that will be running okay on the two days before christmas?

Not quite true. It's a short walk from T2. A long bus ride from T1. Trains are every half hour, ISTR.

Yes, but anything left over after your visit stays on your Oyster card until the next time round.

But Southeastern's Twitter feed shows them as CST-CST, so when there's a problem the tweet reads: "CST-CST: delayed at CST"

No wi-fi though, my firiends tell me. Haven't tried myself

No, course not. The FT employs people to provide you with free information. To test that, go along to your local W H Smith and just take a copy of today's FT. They wont charge you a penny -- they like you to have free info

Easy to exaggerate, isn't it? Latest annual figures for England & Wales: 619 Latest annual figure for Scotland: 79 Total: 698 A bit less than "thousands"

Canals aren't that straight, following the contour line, so are very curvy. If not, they have locks which take them up and down hills. West Croydon station is built on the site of the canal basin for the Croydon Canal, and some of the line from there to New Cross Gate is built on the line of...

He was clever, not born in a rich family, and did well through his own efforts. "Beeching was born in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, the second of four brothers. His father was a reporter with the Kent Messenger, his mother a schoolteacher and his maternal grandfather a dockyard...

Lee, in South East London

Sorry to break the news to you guys, but East Enders is fiction. It's MADE UP. A STORY. NOT TRUE. Okay?

No mention of any "grand plan" there. Just a lot of flowery romance. "Our research suggests that a one-way ticket to Zurich in a shared compartment should not cost more than £100," says Michael Guerra in that article, but offers no supporting information.