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A quick question, I travel this route fairly frequently but it does get a wee bit boring seeing the same scenery and dealing with SWT's lovely hard seats.
Anyway, would my ticket be valid if I went to Clapham Junction and hopped onto the Southern service to Portsmouth from there?
I know it...
I got locked in on a train once (it was quite quiet and at the nice slump time of between 2 and 3); I was getting off at the final stop but I was working on the computer and took a bit of time to pack away and went to the loo on the train.
I came out and tried to get out but the door was...
Gotta be the ones that run on Kent/Brighton lines, the electrostars are very much more comfortable seat wise - gosh these things actually have padding in them, the air conditioning is a lot quieter and also the lighting is softer. The tannoy is also a bit less loud too.
Whereas on the Desiros...
I travel a lot to Portsmouth on the train and have developed a loathing for SWT's endless barrage of annoucements on the trains. It can be impossible to hold a conversation on the train or even work or relax as there's some announcement about this, that or another. There are one or two guards...
I too live in the area and use Walton frequently.
The island platforms in all the time that I can remember have never been used for services, although I can remember an occasion a few years back 2003/4 when the central platform WAS used for trains (as I remember going on it), because the line...
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