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It sounds like the Southern services between London Bridge, East Croydon and Gatwick Airport were still calling at East Croydon, so the staff were presumably concentrating on these services.

I hadn't spotted the new lift on platform 3/4. It is to the north of the existing concourse, roughly in line with the existing lifts for platforms 1/2 and 7. That, combined with the new lift for platform 7 in the new concourse, means that both concourses will have lifts to all platforms. That's...

I'm surprised there isn't a current thread for this, although the upgrade was discussed in https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gatwick-airport-station-fit-for-purpose-any-future-plans.187081/, but that was before work started and is now locked. Official sources with plans include...

I prefer this map to similar ones I've seen in the past - it's just the right level of detail for me. I don't consider myself colour blind, but it is hard to tell the difference between the Proposed and Construction colours - maybe a yellower colour would work for one of them. Maybe a darker...

Just speculating, but a lot of work was done on the 700 to make a "better" train. The seats are only attached to the floor at the wall, not at the aisle, which makes it easier to clean the floor. I can easily imagine someone who had been shown these new seats on a 700 prototype asking if they...

I thought that section was finished? Is this a power upgrade to support more trains when Crossrail starts?

@GRALISTAIR Most of the links in your OP go to a forum upgrade login page. It looks like the URL formats changed when the forum was upgraded, but it's fairly easy to work out the new URL from the old one. For example: Scottish Electrification Thread Updates and Discussion...

I think chiltern trev is saying that "1 in 50 years" is an underestimate due to climate change. He could well be right, but let's assume that 1 in 50 years is correct and consider what it really means. It doesn't mean you can live in the house for 49 years and then the following year it will...

If you can afford it, then it is cheaper in the long term to own your own assets rather than renting them. For commercial businesses, leasing assets can allow the business to grow faster. For example, if you have x pounds you can buy one plane outright and make y pounds by operating it. That...

What do Network Rail expect to achieve by sharing these videos? White car in the first video starts to cross before the amber light shows. Traffic ahead of him was moving, so it's not particularly surprising that he started to cross, before getting caught out by the queue. He was easily clear...

The front of the station is already too busy with local buses. The problem isn't really setting passengers down, it's what to do with the buses until they are needed for a journey North. Running some buses to Hove instead could be a solution. There's a bus garage right next to Hove station.

If they tried hard enough I'm sure they could find somewhere in the car park (accessed from the pick up point, because main car park entrance wouldn't be high enough). Or the far end of stroudly road outside the language school. The buses were backed up onto fleet Street so causing wider...

I was on these buses last Sunday and was mostly impressed. As I left three bridges station building around 18:30 I could see a queue of about 100 people for the Brighton buses. Half of those had been directed to a bus by the time I'd walked to the gazebos and the rest of us were filing onto a...

Apologies if this has already been asked (I did look), but have their been any further announcements Bristol Temple Meads and Bath since it was paused? I understand there is a sensible order to do things in, but if the resignalling is going to be complete within the next six months, surely now...

If an alternative line already existed, do you think the government would be considering spending £500m at Dawlish? If they didn't and a major cliff fall happened, would it be a priority to reinstate the line or would they just turn Dawlish into the terminus of a branch line?

Video about this by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-43545422/passengers-ride-on-the-uk-s-first-automated-mainline-train

Are there any programmes to extend the platforms at these stations, similar to how many stations are being made step free? I was just at one such station (angmering). There is plenty of land at one end of the platforms, so all it needs is for some concrete to be put there and a signal moved in...

How can 12/87 be the correct date if Thameslink didn't exist open 5/88?

Partly. Platform 4 is relatively new and was built as a second face to what is now Platform 3 but at the time was Platform 1. Numbering them 2 - 4 meant the platforms would stay in a sensible order, there didn't need to be a platform 0 and there was no potential confusion about the renumbered...

The responsibilities of a guard have been declining for a long time too, thanks to improvements like centrally controlled and locked doors, improved signalling and automated announcements. It's also fundamentally a dispute between the unions and government policy, just as coal was. Of course...