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Nailsea and Backwell

IIRC that was the 1810 departure. First stop Farnborough then split at Basingstoke with the 33+4TC continuing to Yeovil Junction and the rear portion, usually a VEP or CIG, forming a stopper to Southampton Central.

It's slightly before the period specified by the OP but the artist's impression of class 442 can be seen here http://extra.southernelectric.org.uk/features/rolling-stock/442/442misc_mempub.html

Thanks, that's interesting. I'm rather behind the times and had forgotten about Worcestershire Parkway. It didn't exist last time I ventured along there.

Ashchurch for Tewkesbury and Bromsgrove? Pinhoe and St James Park?

IIRC, in the days before Southampton Airport became Southampton Parkway, only the semi-fast (92 headcode) services stopped there. Passengers to/from Swaythling or St Denys had to travel to Eastleigh or Southampton Central and double-back.

This restored and colourised footage of London during WW2 includes some evocative shots of Waterloo station starting at 12 mins 30 secs

Weston Milton, Weston-super-Mare

Canary Wharf DLR

St Denys, Southampton St-Denis, Paris St Denis, Maryland

The main station buildings at St Denys and Woolston, designed by Sir William Tite, are almost identical except that Woolston is stuccoed and St Denys has plain brickwork.

Southern EMUs in the 1980s from old cine film

That grid reference seems a little wide of the mark. Did you mean TL2399805006? https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/51.73006,-0.20594,15/pin

A BBC West documentary from 1988 about the Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway

I'm not sure if this is close enough to count but the original Mottisfont station (on the old Redbridge to Andover line) is just over three quarters of a mile, as the crow flies, from the current Mottisfont and Dunbridge station. The station building still exists as a private dwelling. OS grid...

For the record, it was Roger Freeman, the Transport Minister responsible for steering the Railways Bill through the Commons in the run up to privatisation. https://www.iaindale.com/articles/some-political-gaffes-for-your-delectation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Freeman,_Baron_Freeman

Weston=super-Mare: platform 2 is about 30% longer than platform 1 Yatton: platform 1 is 162 metres long, platform 2, is 121 metres long

This note appears in the Validity section of the National Rail website page for the Spirit of Scotland ticket: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/prf90d13c35ce741008d5f4736d0e192.aspx

As I understand it, a couple of Ishihara plates are designed to only be readable by colourblind people so if you only failed two plates you may have normal vision. I would suggest visiting an optician for a proper test under the correct conditions. Online tests are likely to be affected by the...