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Are those ages minimum or maximum? Ie if a steel body builder was 26 were they in a reserved occupation or is it that anyone under 23 doing that job was in a reserved occupation?

Selhurst to Clapham Jct, but not Balham, from a station perspective is an example. Then East Croydon, (now itself rebuilt) Purley Oaks and Purley as the line was quadrupled going south. Horley as well from this period and I think St Leonards Warrior Square, although not due to quadrupling. All...

I’m not one to argue, at least all the time, that money should stay where it’s made. We are a country after all, not a series of countries. But the reality needs to be understood.

The taxpayers places you mention are subsidised by those in London and the South East.

What do deaf people think? A hearing person saying something is wrong seems wrong.

Thanks

Finally someone else remembers this. One of the very few ways pre-Overground to do the Ludgate lines from Clapham Jct. Not busy when I went either.

On Oyster or just on contactless?

In 1987 my day train from Port Bou to Narbonne certainly looked like it was formed of the night stock from Paris. Very long train; not many passengers.

Currently a Southern train from the High Level route via Battersea Park can access platforms 7 and 8 at Victoria. 8 is rare but not unknown in disruption; 7 is very rare. Otherwise access from the Clapham Jct direction requires use of the Stewart’s Lane low level lines. South Eastern trains...

I remember catching a Saturday service from either platform 3 or 4 at Clapham Jct which had come from Reading and headed to the Kent Coast. I got off at Ashford (Kent). It will have gone through Ashford (Middlesex - now Surrey); don’t know if it stopped there. Mid-late 80s Summer Saturdays.

Though historically major termini had an arrival and a departure side. So a station could have a platform only used for arrivals - trains went out ECS and one used for departures - train arrived ECS. The layouts at Paddington and Euston in particular facilitated this. At Euston there was an up...

There was a much smaller population in the Mid-Sussex area then. The long distance commuters of the south lived on the coast in the 1950s. Only now, with the south coast being less God’s Waiting Room are these places attracting the young; often those priced out of London and then Brighton. There...

Because more people live in Mid-Sussex.

Quite. Getting people annoyed at having to buy a ticket is much less bad than fining them (I know it not a fine) and having them annoyed at both them not being able to use contactless and also getting a penalty fare.

It’s very common for those whose travel is only in London to get caught out in trips outside. The inconsistencies are legion. Reigate- no. Gatwick Airport (further from London) yes. And the sheer convenience of using contactless means that those living in London forget that travelling outside...

If we’re allowing Alexandra Palace can we allow Crystal Palace? The Palace itself was privately owned once it move to the top of Sydenham Hill.

I’ve left Balham up slow in the down direction on the authority of a shunt signal. More unusually this meant that the driver did not have a signal saying whether the route at the next junction was set for Streatham Hill or Streatham Common. Driver said his instructions were to visually check the...

But not, as I quoted above, what the FAQs say to do in this circumstance. https://www.ircas.co.uk/Home/Faqs When the FAQs state that something should be returned to the address on the envelope and there isn't one...

And via Kensington Olympia puts one on the slow side of the Brighton Main Line (note the Engineer's Line Reference is VTB not BML) at Clapham Junction requiring northbound trains to cross the down fast at Balham and the down slow at Clapham Junction and southbound ones to merely cross the up...