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Pedigree Petfood could sponsor a certain Underground station for their Pal Meat for Dogs, with the old slogan 'Enriched with nourishing Marylebone jelly'. (You'll have to be a pensioner to twig this!)

Also by the Grateful Dead, 'Jack Straw': Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe, The Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea. Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride. They and many others did the traditional song 'I Know You Rider': I wish I was a headlight on a...

They did have a strong spring on them; I probably couldn't open them when I was little, but I can't recall clearly. I would use my thumb on the latch, but more often opened the window and used the outside handle. I remember a lad from abroad who presumably had not been on a Southern Region EMU...

The history of this curve is interesting. In Volume 13 of the British Railways: Past and Present (Silver Link, 1992), there is a photograph taken from the Acton Wells to Cricklewood line's bridge over the Grand Union Canal which shows an abandoned bridge abutment, and the more recent shot shows...

It works both ways. I was a bit narked when an up Shepperton service, normally all stations to Waterloo (except Earlsfield) was running late and ran non-stop from Teddington, thus running through Kingston where I was waiting. On the other hand, one evening I boarded a down Shepperton service at...

A friend of mine knew someone who, having missed his last bus home, 'borrowed' one from another route and drove off, only to belly it on a hump-back bridge; he legged it and wasn't caught. This would have been sometime in the 1960s. To return to the original subject, have there been instances...

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I'm not familiar with the term 2M/F/G, can you please elucidate?

Broad Street was a lot more convenient for the City than Paddington or Marylebone, no need for a change to the underground. On the other hand, Camden Road to Broad Street might not have been that fast, even though there were four tracks, because of stoppers and freight.

At Twickenham, one of the bays, platform 1, had been out of use for ages, it was unusable as sleepers had been removed in places and eventually the points leading on to the up slow were removed, yet the red signal at the end of the platform remained lit. I'm pretty sure it's not been lit after...

My paternal grandparents hailed from Dalston and they always pronounced it 'Marmay'. Mildmay Park station was just up the road, I think it closed in the 1930s. This new name for the North London Line is, however, named after the Mildmay Hospital, which is some miles away from Dalston.

Exactly. It will be the North London Line so far as I'm concerned, none of this Mildmay Line nonsense. I bet they don't even pronounce it properly.

Here perhaps, on this map, grid ref 962653? This is near Conyer, on the Kent coast, by the Swale, the creek between the mainland and the Isle of Sheppey.

Looking at the New Adlestrop railway map, I noticed that as a result of the closure of lines in Yorkshire, the junction north-west of Pontefract, shown in a box on the attached map, was rationalised in such a way that removed a direct route from the line through Knottingly through to Leeds via...

I was always impressed by this monster at Putney Bridge station. It looked more like an artillery piece, taking aim at Earls Court. Sadly, it was removed when the station layout was modified a few years back.

I've just had a look at my 1922 Bradshaw's and, at a rough count, there were about a hundred departures each weekday from Liverpool Street between 17.00 and 19.00. Destinations included Palace Gates, Enfield Town, Hertford, Ongar, Chingford, Chelmsford (and beyond), Southend, North Woolwich...

Perhaps an independent Metropolitan Railway would have become merged into the Great Central and become the GC's London suburban line, with services terminating at Aylesbury or more probably Amersham. The Bakerloo line would not have been extended north of Baker Street, or perhaps extended along...

I heard somewhere that on the London Underground the NUR represented the drivers, except on the Metropolitan Line, where ASLEF represented them. This was because the Met had actual locomotives, whereas the other lines didn't, and that ASLEF didn't consider EMU drivers, motormen, as proper...

Thanks for the information in respect of the matter of potential trespass. I was very much misinformed about the procedures.

Does the question of the right to be on railway premises enter into investigations into deaths on the railway (some are accidents rather than suicides)? I was told years back by a couple of railway workers that the deceased needs to be checked to see whether he had a valid ticket; this was...