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Hmm... Interesting, I just checked mine again. The first journey had a funny icon on it, went in to it and saw it was showing as an incomplete journey so assumed to be Ealing Broadway to St Paul's. Stranger and stranger - I did tap out at Liverpool Street. Edit: And I refreshed after it said...

Yeah, I was able to get in when I went to get the error message. I'm showing a 3 minute gap at TCR. It certainly felt longer!

Yes, but before getting her to sign up for that, I wanted to check my history so that I could see if I was missing anything, and to be able to describe the way through the system. And the site wasn't saying anything about my account, just that the site was unavailable. Maybe it was a...

I didn't time how long we were stuck on that concourse for, but it might not be beyond the realms of reason... So my wife got charged £3 for being a few seconds slower than me to go through a crowd. Amazing.

I had a recent trip to London. The journey was Ealing Broadway to Liverpool Street (direct Elizabeth Line) St Paul's to Ealing Broadway, via TCR. The signed route taking us up, through a gate, through a huge queue into another gate and back down. (Grr) My card shows £6.60 for the day. My wife...

Which type of swan? Why was it there in the first place? Debate over RSPB or RSPCA. Contact numbers for local swan rescue. Countless Hot Fuzz references. Comments about the royals eating swan. More demands for the type and age of swan.

A late running train in front of it.

Ah yes, that's what it was at Guildford as well. Rather than a totally non-passenger service.

I've been at Guildford and heard an announcement to stand clear of platform 1, as the approaching train is not scheduled to stop at this station. I understand the spirit of that message is more "leave that train alone, it isn't for passenger use", but the wording sounds more like it is not...

The driving policy at my day job, which covers use of private vehicle for travelling to client sites or the office, does not want use of mobile phones at all and also discourages the distraction of talking to any passenger in the car. I think that that is a policy that is entirely disregarded...

While the romantic tale of the underdog defeating the legal giant of a large company is enjoyable, it seems inappropriate here. The large company was trying to do infrastructure works that would benefit the local community (or enable the mind control chips that Bill Gates implanted in everyone...

I was going to say Waterloo and Waterloo East - they are neighbouring, they are physically connected, but the latter clarification on them having to be physically connected by track ruins pedantry corner

Until the heat death of the universe, it seems

If there is a route from that calls at A, B, C. Its mileage is done from a route that no longer exists. I don't know, they built a bridge/tunnel between A and B that knocked many miles off the route. Fine, the mileages at B and C are "wrong", but they are fixed, known, accepted, etc. A new...

Among other aircraft... ...I'll get my coat

I've mentioned before a really daft one... At Whatever Park football grounds, the code word for evacuation is "Would Mr Whatever please report to reception". I heard it once during setup, a very "announcer" voice doing the sound test. "Would Mr Whatever please report to reception. Would Mr...

Cool, shows how much attention I pay then!

I'm not saying that - I fully understand the need for extra revenue streams. And the dark mode northern line map looks really neat - makes an interesting proof of concept. My question was around the alcohol advertising side, rather than the general advertising.

Hmm, that's got me thinking... Which makes the other advertising rules even dafter - you can't advertise a Mars bar, but you can advertise White Lightning? (I thought part of why the advertising was done for the Bakerl0.0 was to be able to say "we aren't advertising alcohol!")

In which case, with it being real... TfL don't like HFSS advertising - there was a report a few years back now of a comedian with a cake advertising the comedy show but it wasn't able to be shown because it had cake on it, if I remember correctly? You can't have alcohol on TfL services. There...