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Thanks. If you could make your spreadsheet available, that would be great, one way or another, that would be great. As to Georeferencing, I would regard it as a 'nice to have' rather than something essential. The StopsGB project did document their process/source (follow the link I quoted for...

The underlying data for the map video is 'StopsGB: Structured Timeline of Passenger Stations in Great Britain' - see https://bl.iro.bl.uk/entities/product/56ff09f0-db5b-4ca9-8389-cfa362d5f46b , and links from there, and the YouTube page, for details and credits. This is essentially a conversion...

The origin of the Met quadrupling beyond Harrow and electrification beyond Rickmansworth scheme was the late 1930s 'New Works' programme - essentially the last part of it to come to fruition.

There was a story when I was at uni about when Cambridge was digging up the streets in relation to the new one way system, c 1970, several of the navvies bent their pneumatic drills when they struck steel - the horse tram rails (system abandoned 1914) were - surprise, surprise - still, and long...

The arrangements under which Underground (LPTB and predecessor) services were extended and worked over 'Main Line' (Big 4) lines were, from a legal perspective, varied and complex. My understanding is that, for the Northern and Central line extensions over the LNER under the 'New Works...

There was one tram/trolleybus terminus in - I think - Huddersfield (or somewhere else in Yorkshire) where a turntable was installed for the trolleybuses. The single ended trams were Rotherham Corporation's, for its share of the joint operation - designed to match Rotherham's trolleybuses (which...

What would the price have been for a ticket from Bristol Parkway to Stoke on Trent for that journey? If more than £19.95, then I would say yes, you - or someone on your behalf - had 'gamed' the system. If a comparable someone had made that journey without buying a ticket (paying that price...

Coming from the Fare Evasion Issue thread , is it possible to determine if a 'found' Oyster card is registered? (And if so how?)

Coming from the "Greater Anglia Penalty Fare - Contactless Mistake at Kelvedon" thread, as requested, a new one. As per title, when is it correct for revenue inspector to issue a penalty fare, for a passenger with a touched in with a contactless card? In the original thread, passenger having...

My understanding is that the CTA (as such), which also includes the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, only covers travel, and relaxed checks on travellers - it came down to us, back in 1922-23, deciding we didn't want to establish a 'hard' border (with checks everywhere) between the (then new)...

My instant thought is that, once you've decided your ground rules, and assuming it's rail all the way (no bus or other non-rail gaps) with no branches/dead ends/doubling back, the itinerary will be fairly set, just a matter of which way round you go. Perhaps the only decision is whether you...

Would this actually have applied to 'British Isles', including Ireland (both parts) as well as GB, as journeys covered by RCH rather than UIC rules (which would have applied for journeys to continental Europe)? Can anybody confirm this? And state when treating journeys to and from Ireland as...

Or I would suggest looking at a Travelcard for the appropriate Zone - will depend on what other travelling you do.

On a global scale, all time, I suspect the record will be weeks, not days. On a slightly different topic, in 1939, on the outbreak of war, BBC television was summarily shut down, mid programme. On it's post war resumption in 1945, they started with the same programme. So anyone watching in 1939...

Which is fine until the driver makes a quick get away, closing the doors and shutting down the train. Before everybody had got off....

The classic story - apocryphal maybe, but with basis in how it was - was of someone who went to visit their friends who lived up country in one of the colonies, and when it was time to return, saw that train was at 12:00, and insisted on being at the station in ample time, over the protests of...

The LCDR's Metropolitan Extension - from Herne Hill - was opened in the mid 1860s; at about the same time as the SER's extensions to Charing Cross and Cannon Street. At that stage there was no connection between the SER and LCDR; that came in the 1870s when the SER thought a connection from its...

There was a turntable, and loco servicing facilities, at Ewer Street, which I think lasted into the early 1960s, probably the end of steam into Charing Cross/Cannon Street.

And earlier - going way back - Circle 5, H&C and Dist to Edgware Road 5, District Main Line 6 or 8, Met 4 or 8.

Not when the line was built, and it wasn't on the 1894 map. The widening of the line into Charing Cross was between then and 1902: my assumption is that the turn table was installed as part of that project.