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Yeah, fair enough. I've done Gilmour Street to Canal, but that's because I was up at the Cross, needed to pop into an office near Central, and Canal was handier on the way back.

And if we like strange, isolated little platforms, what about Copenhagen H's platform 26? It was originally conceived as a rush hour relief platform for the busy station, with (IIRC) diesel trains heading off to Nykobing Sjaelland going from here. The idea was simple enough - create a platform...

And while we're on Prague, there's also the "Western Platform" at Holesovice - quite some distance from the main station, and serving trains heading from Dejvice into Hl. N. (although that line is currently closed for engineering at the moment). It's quite a forlorn little station, particularly...

Depends on how far you're able to walk throughout the day. Charing Cross to Waterloo East isn't at all rare. See also the Thameslink-linked terminals, Cannon Street, and Victoria/Waterloo via Clapham Junction (yes, really). Oh, and Vauxhall, as it's technically a terminal... (I've known...

Heh, reminds me of a visit to Ljubljana, in the late 90s. We'd arrived by train from Koper, and were headed to a campsite over the river. As it happened, there was a train about to leave in that direction, so we got a ticket and hopped on, rather than trying to figure out the bus system. We...

I flew JER-LGW in 2010, and that was definitely done as a domestic arrival (with a detour via a non-EU carousel - I remember because domestic arrivals at LGW N takes such a RIDICULOUSLY roundabout route). Willing to believe South Terminal was still managing the BE/GR turboprop flights in this...

You can also think back to those innocent days when Gatwick had a special immigration lane for CTA arrivals. You got channelled in through international arrivals rather than the little domestic pier, and waved a boarding pass stub with DUB, GCI or whatever on it, and they just ushered you...

Yup, that's the key point. However, there are a number of Schengen zone airports with a hybrid approach - where the Schengen area is mixed arrivals and departures, and the non-Schengen area accessed through the Schengen area. Copenhagen is a good example of this. Vienna always used to have a...

Miami used to, given its status as de fact hub for Latin America. It was awful. Painfully slow security and a tiny little dump of a holding room before you could travel onwards. The difficulty is that most international US airports are set up to share domestic and international departures...

Helsingør, in Denmark is one I've always enjoyed. Formerly a train-ferry terminal, before the Øresund fixed link was opened, but still a busy ferry terminal. You can see where the tracks went off to the quay - though this is now a cycle park. It's an imposing station, a castle-like red-brick...

Sealdah station in Kolkata is an odd one. Almost all the long-distance trains serve Howrah station, on the other side of the river, but Sealdah is the hub for regional services (and some longer ones like the Darjeeling Mail) and one of the world's busiest. It's fairly typical of a secondary...

Ooh, the Möbius Line!

Not at all! I love that kind of kitsch futurism. It's not just the nose either - the windows, the interiors... If we're going classic, though, what about the lovely old French X4500s now over in Romania?

Surely a mention for the Nankai 50000 Series?

Liverpool James St, given platform 2 is disused.

When the T&W Metro opened, the ticket machines had 9 fare options: ABCD12345 depending on journey length and fare zones. But they specifically advertised "the loop" as a fare option, for people who either wanted the experience, or wanted to get the first train for the journey to/from the coast...

Confirmation bias isn't hard to come by. I'll bet most people can find some in themselves if they're being really honest.

I think the Scottish loops have a similar split - the Cathcart Circle operates as a single headcode, but the Fife Circle seems to change over at Glenrothes with Thornton. Hamilton loop trains change over at Motherwell, but you can understand this, given the size of the loop relative to the rest...

Sounds about right. I didn't know the area very well in those days - I just remember trying to navigate my way through the confusing tunnels trying to get from Aldgate to Brick Lane! (I ended up working - in a now demolished building - in Aldgate, for 4 years. The centre had gone by then...

I came here to post about those single-fare ticket machine too! I have an abiding memory of travelling from Havant up to Newcastle with my Gran, using these on the Tube, and having to explain to her about how the Northern Line didn't run all the way through to King's Cross. The Waterloo & City...