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Is "for Alnwick" not just a piece of advisory text? I don't think it's part of the official name, it certainly doesn't feature here: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/48541.aspx. The only "for" stations on the NR list are: Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Newton for Hyde Ravenglass...

Indeed - I've found myself battling against a crowd of schoolkids exiting the station when trying to get to the platform before now! The point being once the rush hour (insofar as it exists at the moment) is over, there's normally nothing from SCY to VIC after around 0900.

Makes my South Croydon to Battersea Park commute (albeit for only 1 day a month) a lot easier - back to the good old days when there used to be an all day direct service. Long may it continue! :D

Interesting that South Croydon is getting a direct service to Victoria out of peak hours, which is not the case in the regular timetable. I'm assuming they've only extended the stopper to SCY as it's a convenient place to terminate and avoids blocking a platform at East Croydon.

Services will operate to and from London Victoria on the following routes: Four trains per hour in each direction calling at London Victoria, Clapham Junction, Streatham Common and East Croydon Two trains per hour in each direction calling at London Victoria, Battersea Park, Clapham Junction...

The Spice Museum of Partridge fame is in Longstanton, not Hunstanton.

I've heard "we are currently being held at a red aspect" on Southern.

There was a terrible accident at the Nestlé factory yesterday when a man was crushed under hundreds of boxes of chocolate bars when a shelf collapsed. He tried summoning help, but every time he shouted “The Milky Bars are on me!”, everyone just cheered.

The first thing I think of when I hear that song is being in Woolworths with my mum and gran doing some Christmas shopping, two months after my grandad had died. My gran was stood there with tears running down her face, and I thought “yeah, how bloody wonderful (!)”. (Sorry to put a dampener on...

I thought she was usually at (the) Dore.

Unfortunately not. Serves me right for being vain and waiting to apply until I'd had a haircut so I looked more respectable in the photo! :D

https://twitter.com/thetrainline/status/1464966781102170120?s=21

Yes, I missed out because I thought I had plenty of time to buy it.

Likewise, Gravel Hill on the Croydon tram network is at the foot of the Addington Hill. According to Wikipedia:

Unfortunately, they have ended the promo early due to high demand. https://twitter.com/thetrainline/status/1464966781102170120?s=21

Leon C.

And the “mouth” is fully pronounced, unlike the “mth” in “Portsmouth”.

That is, of course “Tod’m’dn”, and not Tod-MOR-den, as I’ve heard it occasionally mispronounced. Also, Whalley, not too far away, is “Warli”, not “Wally”.

aka Tup’s Arse

Thornton Heath - Fort Neef in the local lingo.