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We've received a letter from IRCAS on behalf of TfL properly addressed to our address but in the name of a person who does not live here and who we don't know. While there is an address to which appeals should be sent (but we're not appealing because the penalty fare notice isn't in our name)...

Happens at Purley Oaks where people bail to move back and get left behind. Listened to a bloke trying to explain to another bloke that all they needed to do was get off at Purley and walk back. Somehow bloke 2 thought the trains would not let anyone off at Purley and bloke 1 couldn’t convince...

My grandfather was a substantive captain but had been a Town Major in Berlin as part of the occupying British forces. He had a letter from the War Office explicitly allowing him to use Major in civilian life, which he did.

Serious grade separation needed between Redhill and Gatwick. I rather fancy (and this is way into Crayonista territory) a light rail line serving Gatwick but going on to Crawley with street running in E Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells.

It’s the flat junction where the connection to the Hayes line diverges and is also a slow to fast connection on the Lewisham avoiding lines. It’s part of the wider Lewisham complex, hence being included in the original post without extra geographical clarification.

No one’s mentioned Lewisham and Park’s Bridge Junction yet. Stunningly expensive.

Might it be Tadworth or Tattenham Corner for Southern?

Is it a terminal station. I know trains terminate, but do they terminate on a through line?

Victoria platform 12, Stewart’s Lane, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, Leigham Spur, Balham, Victoria platform 12. Or London Bridge New Cross Gate, Sydenham, West Norwood, Tulse Hill London Bridge.

And the Travelodge on Brighton Road is 5 mins from Purley Oaks and 10 from Sanderstead.

Or win because they (NWR) are right? The little guy is not always right.

We need a 12 coach service with quadruple decks at the front and nothing at the back. Emergency escape shoots for the top three carriages. Regrettably passengers prefer to stand at the front than sit at the back.

Almost an example would be the increased use of depots rather than sidings to stable trains. Hence trains need to run out from, say, Selhurst depot in the morning rather than being stabled nearer their morning starting point. The East Grinstead and Uckfield branches are particularly noticeable...

Seaford gets 8 car trains when Brighton and Hove Albion are playing at home.

I have been hoping for the west to North curve at Loughborough Jct, but suspect it will be very rare if never now. I’m trying to think of what combination of engineering work would leave it as the only option to get to the core, and noth8ng comes to mind

Thanks.

I’ve said it before, but a well-executed contactless scheme will do wonders. Go to almost any suburban London station and people simply don’t buy physical tickets any more for the great majority of the journeys. Maybe one in a hundred or one in two-hundred.

The fast to slow connections on the Brighton main line (between Pouparts Jct and Clapham Jct) seem to get used rarely (the older slower crossovers I’ve only used when a train has sat down on platform 13.)

My only use was for the up Newhaven Boat Train in 1989. I’ve been via most of the rest in 32 years commuting to Victoria.

A22 in East Grinstead. It’s called Beeching Way.