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Were it a passenger service, it would have been issued a penalty fare

I like the idea of the stock getting epically displaced, having a Great Northern service between Southampton and Brighton.

It's a subset of Troll Logic. You yourself said that the 70+ year old units are not complained about because they are better maintained. I believe the other common response to having bad stuff due to mistreatment is "This is why we can't have nice things"

I believe that there are TROs on the A38 tunnels banning pedestrians (Are these the tunnels the taxi would be going through?) Once you get out of them, you're then stuck in the middle of a junction with no pedestrian facilities, due to no expectation of pedestrians being there.

Arctic Troll, so the problem isn't the age of the unit but the maintenance? In which case, why put brand new shiny units up there if they'll just get trashed?

There are trains running not that far from me for "normal, fare-paying" passengers that are 76 years old. No one's complaining about them because of their age.

I groaned when I read that. If they were to rebuild platform 2 at the Harbour, would that deal with the capacity issue? At least as a place to dump a unit while other movements are happening? The comment about an easier ride to Westminster; I'm having visions of a chord linking the PDL to...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdMBd9uvJS8/TaRVQ7WHnkI/AAAAAAAAFlk/TV-Ri5cMu_0/s1600/P1020638.JPG The perfect pacer replacement! Maybe the MP is so used to the crime rates and any vehicle stopped for more than a second being put up on bricks and having its wheels nicked? So a bus on wheels is a...

Ah. I take "Southern" as being "This side of Oxford"

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/calls-for-an-express-train-service-from-portsmouth-to-london-1-5933928 The fasts do more stops in Hampshire than they do in the London suburbs. Is Penny wanting them to go fast from Fratton? Would pathing allow for that? If only Havant still had the...

I saw the title and felt compelled to read. I then felt compelled to query this:

I've had my arm shut in a bus door as I was boarding years back, with the bus then moving off. Managed to pull free before it got to more than running speed.

Ah. I inferred that there was a desire to use them there. I'd not digested the quoted bit, which made what I was going to say about hating "The blue trains" entirely moot.

I've never seen a 458 beyond Guildford, and I don't think I've ever seen one there outside of the sidings. Are they even cleared for Portsmouth?

They're all interchangeable. You could pick up any guard and just plop them into any train! Or grab you to do it. Pressing a button and looking at coloured lights isn't that hard, so walking up and down asking to see tickets and pressing the "ding ding" button can't be much of a stretch...

I'd say "Union bosses would have a heart attack if they found their members were at risk of being shelled by the army whilst working" But that may be too soon

So, a staff member could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and fall! :P Seriously though, has there ever been a case in the history of corridor stock of someone falling because units have split or carriages have detached? I'd imagine it to be similar odds to winning the lottery...

Someone could have fallen through if they were in the corridor connection when they split! It could have been a child! Somebody think of the children!!! Sensational enough? :P

Man walking with a red flag in front of every train?

Being delayed at London Bridge is a "nightmare"?