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Queenstown Road (according to Cartometro & my own observations) currently has a layout in which (going up) the Up fast has a viable platform while the Up slow doesn't; meanwhile in the other direction the down tracks merge into one. This means Up trains have to switch between tracks & run...

When I was younger, I travelled Europe by rail (I wouldn't go so far as to say extensively). One of my favourite experiences was passing all the suburban stations on a wide (at least 4 tracks) approach to a city. These sorts of approaches are rather under-rated & all have their own individual...

Many major termini have one station on the lines out of them which is very small & usually receives fewer trains than most stations on the line: Queenstown Road (London Waterloo) Wandsworth Common (London Victoria) Queens Park (London Euston) Acton Main Line (London Paddington) Adderley Park...

Announcements at London Waterloo drop "Platform" & "South Western Railway service to", so instead say "5 for the 15:53 Strawberry Hill via Kingston; calling at Vauxhall, Clapham Junction..." Waterloo has over 20 platforms & serves trains on long routes. Intercity trains here in the south...

I recently been wondering when station codes were defined & have noticed some oddities which could be of interest, for example: Eltham is [ELW]. This appears to refer to the old Eltham Well Hall station. Eltham was rebuilt as a single station in 1985. There is a code for Belfast Central, but...

This would be conventional carriages behind a class 73 locomotive. It would go from London to Weymouth round the coast. Out late on a Friday night calling at: London Victoria > Denmark Hill [3] > Lewisham [4] > Welling > Dartford > Gravesend > Strood > Rochester > Chatham > Gillingham > Rainham...

There is a planned new shopping precinct inside Chester Northgate, & it's Huge. It shouldn't be called Northgate as in reality parts of it are closer to Watergate. Anyway, I had an idea for a station at Chester Northgate: 1. Reconfigure the tracks like this (if they aren't already): → Up Local →...

Going to Denmark Hill recently, I noticed how there were so many trains on the Outer South London line, but only Thameslink trains, using the Cambria spur, were using the Inner line. Even the Lewisham trains were going on the outer lines, which is a strange choice, considering they then have to...

The Brentford loop line between approximately X43 & X06 is much wider than it needs to be. It appears to be wide enough for 4 tracks & all the bridges are designed that way. An exception to this is a section that is used as a car park for a recent apartment complex. Also strange is a bridge over...