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The very rude person at the ticket office at Sydenham said a Network Railcard wasn’t allowed for such journeys even though I’ve bought similar tickets before between Charlton & London and to other places. My girlfriend and I ended up using contactless because our train was due but it’s...

In the Southern Region (more specifically South Eastern) there area number of Seaside excursions this year. Today was supposed to have been a Cannon Street to Ramsgate service, fast from London Bridge to Lewisham then all stations via Blackheath and Woolwich to Dartford, then selected...

The Jubilee line was built initially to relieve the Bakerloo line, was it ever considered which branch the new line would take over or was the Stanmore branch always the plan? How different would things be had the Jubilee taken over the Harrow/Watford branch?

Is Leeds; the largest urban area in Europe without a transit system about to finally get one? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-55822915

Not sure this is the right place to post this but feel free to move this to the right area. I saw this map on Twitter from Abbey Wood and it shows a rather bizarre stopping pattern on the Woolwich line. It shows Greenwich still having trains to Charing Cross even though these are completely...

Wasn’t this supposed to happen at some stage? Seeing the sheer number of people transferring from the North Kent line onto the Elizabeth line at Abbey Wood (and Woolwich to an extent) I would have thought that a timetable change would occur at some point in the future, when the DLR arrived at...

I recall that this was an alternative a few months ago to extend the current Dartford services via Woolwich/Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet International, would this be feasible or worth it?

Imagine money is no object, which cities and large towns do you reckon should have a tram, light rail or metro rail system? For me Leeds should have a tram/light rail system, Reading is large enough for such a system too, I always thought the guided busway in Cambridge should be a light rail or...

Would we be near to a third Crossrail being built? would the Chelney be a tube, light rail or a main line railway?

In the early 2000s when the Gillingham semi fasts were rerouted via Greenwich, the replacement service via Lewisham was initially the Dome Express which ran from Victoria to Plumstead, this was later rerouted to Cannon Street, yet this service was semi fast as it skipped Woolwich Dockyard, St...

Has there been any changes announced? I did hear a while back that the CX to Dartfords via Woolwich could be extended to Gravesend in the peaks to feed CrossRail demand into Abbey Wood but not much more than that. What changes could be made if any? I know CrossRail doesn’t intersect with SE as...

If the Bakerloo line extension doesn’t happen for whatever reason what alternatives could take it’s place? 1: A Light rail 2: An express bus transit 3: A tram

There’s probably already a similar threads but I did search and nothing came up so here goes 8-) Much like the Broad Street thread what are your memories of using Holborn Viaduct? Unlike Broad Street, HV was at least replaced with City Thameslink (I wish for it to be renamed Holborn...

Aside from the Met line fast and semi fast peak time services to Amersham/Chesham, the non stop run between Finchley Road and Wembley Park and the Piccadilly line non stop run between Hammersmith and Acton Town What other skip stop/express services has the tube ran in the past? I know that the...

Could a split between the old London & South Eastern and the London, Chatham & Dover railways ever work in this day and age?

How was it launched? What were planned routes that were dropped in favour of others? Was TfL going to be involved at all or was it purely an NSE initiative? What were other plans for the line itself in its early years before privatisation? I read on either this forum or on wiki that they...

What changes would you make if you were head of TfL and money were no object? For me I would do this: - The Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line would become the District line and the Ealing Broadway branch would become the Piccadilly line. - Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan line would...

Was the Met Line stopping pattern to Aylesbury the same as the Amersham fasts or was it faster?

So let’s just say that in the early to mid 1980s, Thatcher (Or an alternate PM) decided that the Jubilee line (for the purpose of this thread from here on it’ll be referred to being the Fleet/River Line) was worth the money and it was extended from Charing Cross to Fenchurch Street before...

Has anyone watched Jago Hazzards videos on YouTube? He’s been around a while and he’s very informative and very calming and melodic, he posts videos on local London history and railways, here’s one on the DLR and how it could have been a tram line