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    Gatwick Express at Clapham Junction??

    I managed to get on the 18:30 from Victoria to Brighton formed of 3 red Gatwick Express units. This train stops at Clapham Junction, East Croydon and then Haywards Heath (NB missing out Gatwick Airport). This got me thinking. Are the other advertised services that don’t actually stop at the...
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    Trivia: Which station has the curviest platform?

    Lewisham and West Norwood spring to mind.
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    Is a ticket to all london terminals valid on the tube?

    Slightly strangely a London Terminals gold card (from the south) works the barriers at St Pancras. It does not work them at Farringdon, but does at City Thameslink. I’ve always assumed that the Farringdon/City Thameslink issue is because the latter replaced Holborn Viaduct, which was a valid...
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    Trivia: Longest time you spent on the same train in one day

    Inverness to King’s Cross in the UK. Longest in a single country was Granada to Barcelona Sants in 1987 on the pre AVE RENFE. 17 hours in the same compartment on an overnight train. About the same time (perhaps a bit less) on the Sud Express Paris Austerlitz to Madrid Chamartin (so two...
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    Why don't most self service machines sell extension tickets?

    Has anyone formally complained, for example to Southern, that the previous functionality that allowed a ticket to be bought from another station has been removed? As the holder of a paper only season ticket I’d like the ability to buy a ticket from the end of my season ticket validity, eg...
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    GX Brighton extensions

    Absolutely necessary to sort out the fare structure. Back in BR days the non Gatwick Epress trains weren't advertised as stopping at Gatwick and were shown as terminating at Clapham Junction the other way. This got the luggage carrying tourists off the slower and more crowded trains making more...
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    Trivia: Parallel moves (signalling)

    Thebaz Wasn't meaning to correct, more to inform. Though not the thread I did all get to use the aforementioned Coulsdon North Ground Frame. And in any case while there was a very unusual move there was certainly nothing in the way of parallel working that night.
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    Trivia: Parallel moves (signalling)

    Platform 2 at East Croydon to up fast is technically feasible, as I managed to get on an early Sunday morning train at Platform 1 at Purley which had headed south on the up fast. Confused the hell out of the PID at Purley as an On time train became delayed. Staff at Purley explained that the...
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