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I'm not sure that it really counts as an "amenity", but I think that the "Geranium Train" at Alexandra Palace deserves a mention...

I'm sure that plenty of them will end up carrying freight - once they've been chopped up, melted down, & turned into baked bean cans! :p

The thing is, though, that the consequences are not "nobody else's problem". Never mind about delays & disruption to other people's journeys, the trauma for the staff involved & for the passengers and members of the public who witness fatalities is a very real consequence - and frankly, it's...

London Kings Cross -> London King's Cross King's Cross St Pancras -> Kings Cross St Pancras Just to let the apostroflies stretch their wings :lol:

That sounds like they were covering over the advertising posters, and rather than making dummy adverts with fake brands to use while filming, they asked the station to swap out the ads with something non-commercial that they had around.

It's not unfortunate, it's the main point of motor insurance. If insurers could refuse claims where the driver has committed an offence then the consequence would be that loads of claims would be denied ("You were doing 31mph shortly before you bumped into the lamppost? Claim denied for...

John Bull (editor of London Reconnections) has tweeted a theory about how this happened, https://twitter.com/garius/status/1052853094223138817 (quoted below for those without twitter access.) The short version is, basically, that the pantograph is meant to be secured down at both ends for the...

Another London one are trains to Epsom Downs: from Victoria, if you miss a direct train (departing at xx00 or xx30), rather than waiting the half hour you can catch the next train calling at Sutton (the xx11 or xx41, both to Epsom) and be there 6 minutes before the train you thought you'd missed.

Would that be this trio of trains shown for tonight? Ferme Park (0017) - Moorgate (0113) - Finsbury Park (0154) Finsbury Park (0200) - Moorgate (0256) - Finsbury Park (0336) Finsbury Park (0340) - Moorgate (0437) - Ferme Park (0543) (RTT shows the first two every night this week, and the third...

Great Circle routes (i.e. the shortest routes when you account for the Earth's curvature) always go closer to the poles than flat maps would suggest is shortest - these won't be the actual routes flown, because of weather etc., but Gatwick-Bangor-Cancun is actually only 68 miles longer than...

If the fish is going to Billingsgate market then the arrival time of the sleeper is too late - an 0523 arrival into Paddington means a van driver would struggle to get to the market before 0600, and would miss half of trading before they even start unloading (the market is open 0400-0830.) If...

The application is at https://publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=P92VSCJB0FZ00 - it went in on 21 May and was approved on 11 July. According to the documents there, they're planning to replace the existing stairs with lifts & new stairs...

London Overground's strip maps (http://www.citymetric.com/sites/default/files/article_body_2016/09/lo_whole.jpg) must surely win some kind of booby prize for the amount of geographical distortion they have, with stations that are on opposite sides of London being shown close together, stations...

The original Alexandra Palace station (i.e. the one attached the the palace itself, not the ECML station down the hill that's now called Alexandra Palace) is now a community centre

It's entirely possible that the lowest parts of the arch are lower than the posted height limit, though if that's the case then the width over which the marked height is available should be shown on the bridge with an H-shaped marking, as in the "available width of headroom indicated" diagram...

Platforms 8 & 9 also have great big load of bike racks, which would be a lot less usable if they were behind ticket barriers. (There are also racks on P10, which are inside the barriers and are - officially at least - "for season ticket holders who must be registered.")

I thought I'd got a good one with Kyle of Lochalsh, which has 4 departures to 2 destinations (3 x Inverness, 1 x Elgin) and so scores 0.5

Given the number of parks where you can spot tents pitched (presumably by homeless people) in secluded corners, I wouldn't be sure of that :( However: St Albans Abbey: I don't think the abbey (now St Albans Cathedral) has had a resident population since the dissolution of the monasteries Denham...

By all means keep the Network SouthEast branding - that's pretty much a historic feature these days. But suggesting that it should be deliberately kept grotty & run-down as a way of giving it "character" is just ridiculous - route maps that are half-illegible because of being covered in grime...

RAIB have published their report into this one this morning: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-digest-012018-wimbledon/derailment-of-a-passenger-train-near-wimbledon-south-west-london-6-november-2017 The cause seems to have been that track inspectors on both Network Rail and...