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Correct. It was Grove Park.

I hate to bump threads, but this conversation seems to have slipped without any getting any input. Regardless, I've assisted my sibling in filing for a refund on the grounds of "wrong advice given" and "purchased ticket under duress", so we'll see what SE have to say on the matter.

My sibling was travelling into work this morning to discover that none of the Oyster validators were working at his station. The notices said "Buy a paper ticket or use a different station", but I feel this is not correct advice. Why should you have to use a different station because a critical...

If the penalty was issued by roaming inspectors who jumped on that particular train and issued it for sitting in 1st with a Standard ticket, then it obviously depends on whether that service is listed as having First Class in the timetable. Abbey Wood does not have a single service booked for...

Well... quite a lot of jobsworths' in this thread! I've never had him, but I've had friends who frequent the Southern network who have had him a few times - they really appreciate it. It's a small thing that the passengers legitimately enjoy, and Southern are probably just happy to have...

A few suggestions.: Service announcements should be short and to-the-point. Don't announce the same train multiple times, and don't whittle-off every single calling point. We could learn something from the Germans here. Reduce the frequency of safety announcements. People take very little...

The great thing about this report is: if you blame everyone at the same time, then you don't have to take punitive action against any of them. You can just continuously point fingers at each other until the audience loses interest. So, a whitewash. As predicted.

Most of it is behind a paywall, but the Telegraph has put out an article about the candidates having to re-submit their bids: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/09/16/new-rail-chaos-looms-bidding-south-eastern-faces-delay/ Looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer, then.

If I know that something is graphically explicit, then I'm going to be mindful of my surroundings - but for the most part, I would expect to be able to watch shows like "Homeland" or "Game of Thrones" that have an 16+ or 18+ rating, so long as I'm not forcing a small child to watch it. Unless...

The lack of toilets does limit their use to routes that take no more than roughly an hour's duration. Definitely seen this elsewhere in the past, but struggling to locate the material myself. The VIC-ORP route wouldn't have a problem, as it runs end-to-end in about 38 minutes. Instead, what...

Actually somewhat looking forward to the announcement in a few month's time. I have no beef with the incumbents and I'm somewhat fond of Statham as an MD, unless they go in the direction of the rest of GTR. Stagecoach/Alstom could be interesting, but I have no opinion on Abellio and friends...

Occasionally when I am travelling to Victoria, I might get a 12-coach 375, which will automatically announce that you "cannot alight from the rear 3 coaches" but this is likely down to Platforms 3-4 only having space for a 9-coach train. This means that when we pull into platform 2, there's...

These two apply not only to the public service industry, but are also quite prevalent in private organisations, e.g. tech start-ups and financial institutions. It's a workplace culture I completely refuse to adopt. If there's a deadline, I might stay an extra hour or two, but I'll be keeping...

It's not necessarily blinking, but I've seen slow flashing yellows on the signal at Chelsfield station before. It's a four-aspect that is just at the end of the London-bound platform. Was never sure of its significance.

This is what I like about David Statham (current MD of SE) - in the past two years, I've seen him standing as a passenger on his own trains, speaking to the staff at one of his stations, and manning the gateline for three hours, helping old ladies through the barriers. I can appreciate top-level...

You have to ask at the ticket office. Most manned stations will give you one if you ask for them, however, some TOCs like SWR have a policy where they'll refuse to issue them, citing "potential for misuse". I had this issue at Waterloo last year where I wanted one for Waterloo East, but the SWR...

They were definitely doing mileage runs back then - I remember seeing multiple 377/6s running ECS through Bromley South back in 2013. I believe they were doing laps around Kent for mileage accumulation purposes, doing the big loop via Ramsgate, Dover and Ashford.

I've been wondering what might happen in this scenario. On the Bromley North line, they now have double-drivers on board a single 466 during the peak, allowing them to quickly shuttle it back and forth on its peak 15-minute timetable. I would assume that the driver finishing at one end would...

I didn't have much of an opinion of SE until a few years ago - I didn't see them as incompetent (I wasn't calling for their head on a spike unlike the rest of Kent's entitled commuters), but helpless as the incumbent who was expected to run trains through a bottleneck of a London terminal...

Either way, they may be waiting for the Heathrow stuff to die down before they go public with the next bombshell.