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The footbridge just to the north of South Croydon had NF = Nazi for many years late 70s til mid 00s. Not an advert but certainly a memory. I’ll ask about the advert at Smitham over Brighton Road, Coulsdon and revert.

Mmmm. In my mind open country was over a mile from the nearest station.

We’re there ever stations at any of these? Naming a junction after a place with a station (Sleaford) suggests there might have been.

But there was a station at Norton Bridge. 1759783122 And doesn’t Chinley have a station even now?

Crossovers don’t count. Salisbury ones do.

South Croydon has become a separate place CR2; East and West Croydon feel like two parts of central Croydon and share the CR0 postcode.

The open country junction (ie not at a station) seems quite rare in this country. Any examples beyond Worting (west of Basingstoke) and Cogload (north east of Taunton). I wouldn’t include Balcombe Tunnel Jct - while there is a split it’s two lines to four which go the same direction. So I need...

Pre HS1 Eurostars certainly did.

Do you know the layout at Paddington? Platform 8 as the main arrival platform. Cabs came down a ramp and out into Praed St. train gets pulled back to Old Oak Common for servicing. They had back to Paddington via the flyover at Ladbroke Grove, often hauled by a tank engine withe the train engine...

So I was right! 1757586861 Kandy to Ella was also spectacular.

I recently travelled from Kandy to Ella in Sri Lanka over a spectacular time warp of a railway. We were booked in second class, reserved, for a 7 hour journey (about 170 km). This meant slight tired two abreast unairconitioned seats, with half drop (or half raise) windows. The train doors stayed...

Remember, remember, BML is not the ELR (Engineer’s Line Reference) for the line from London to Brighton.

Because if you remove road capacity the traffic magically disappears.

Very unlikely to be quicker to get the tube 1 stop. Not easy to separate main line from tube entrances, for example the entrance on Waterloo Road goes down to the Underground and up to the main line station.

Was this recently? If so did all the on train announcements and the fact that other passengers didn’t all get off pass them by?

That’s a fun thing at Sanderstead too. Off topic so no more to be mentioned here.

So don’t trust Apps…

I’m a fan of false destinations. I’m on a Reigate and Gatwick Airport (all stations from Purley) and I’m sure there will be Gatwick passengers who will get on, take an hour to get there and wonder. 35 mins via the faster trains.

377s at Willesden Jct as well.

The peak hour break was from the 1920s onwards. I never travelled up on the all stations (and yes, it was, for a period all stations) because it was easier to change at East Croydon for a Thameslink train. Going south the reality was that it was often no slower to get an all stations service...