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The innermost track connects into another siding, but there is no connection from that siding onto the main line (neither Up nor Down) towards Meols Cop. The longest journey cannot go via Southport without reversing.

Buttons or no buttons, all request stops rely on passengers knowing they're request stops and what they need to do to stop the train. Conspicuous signage is key.

Where is the 10 minutes specified?

In that situation the stop request will be sent to both trains.

Pressing the button two minutes before the scheduled train time will usually be more than sufficient, which doesn't seem unreasonable. The "stop" or "pass through" notification will be displayed in the driving cab (together with an audio notification) slightly before the point where the driver...

The loop line at Frinton-on-Sea was taken out of use on 16 June 1974, when the signal box was reduced to a gate box.

Here you go:

Only if you overlook the closure of Achterneed, Glencarron and Duncraig stations (Duncraig having subsequently reopened).

There used to be a SPAD indicator there, but it was abolished eight years ago. This had the appearance of an unlit signal. I can't think what else the OP would be referring to.

Anyone who uses that as justification for writing HST's may have a hard time explaining why they didn't write H'S'T's.

'80's music is music from the year 1980, not the whole decade.

It performs the same function as a ground frame but has electrical switches instead of mechanical levers.

As a listed building, it has its own page on the Historic England website: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064421

I remember when those hydraulic buffer stops at Glasgow Central were all left with broken castings after one cold night during their second winter in the 'care' of Railtrack, for lack of antifreeze.

Today's layout is essentially the same as how it was in 1972.

You would be pretty desperate if you were trying to hand pump the points at Corrour, seeing as they're worked from mechanical ground frames.

There are some routes where drivers must leave their cab to operate a token instrument or plunger etc.

King's Cross is a good example of a large station with axle counter train detection throughout.

The current equivalent of the old Rule 55 is Rule Book module S4, "Trains or shunting movements detained on running lines".

SC197 (Kittybrewster Jcn to Waterloo Goods) is OTNS, not TCB. That's another error in the Sectional Appendix.