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Hi Looking for some advice please on how Pullman trains like the Bournemouth Belle were made up, in particular the ratio of kitchen cars to parlours - would it have been 1:1 or 1 kitchen to 2 parlours or the other way round? Thank you!

Hi Does anyone have a memory of a derailment at Raynes Park involving (possibly) a 4-SUB coming off whilst turning into platform 4 bound for Chessington/Epsom? Maybe in the 70s? I have a vivid memory of this but Google's not turning anything up. It's not the 1967 one, as far as I'm aware...

Hi all If you're up for a bit of a nostalgia then do check this out - it was an attempt by NSE SE to show the public exactly how difficult it was to run the tangle of lines into Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Trouble is, of course, it didn't QUITE work out like that, not least because the...

Hi I have an Annual Gold Card, issued at Wimbledon, for zones 2-4. It's on my Oyster card and expires on 11th September. My office is moving so I need to add zone 1 to the ticket. Today at Wimbledon I was told I couldn't do that on my Oyster card and that I'd need a new paper ticket, for...

Hi This morning at 02.45 something that sounded like a huge vacuum cleaner inched its way along the down slow of the South Western main line at Raynes Park. It was obviously doing something to the track - anyone know what it was please? Thanks!