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Looking on the NLS website, they have editions of the relevant OS 25inch plan (TQ3080SE) surveyed in March (which has the TT) and June (which doesn't!) 1951.

Having been looking further, at vintage large scale OS maps, etc.: In the mid 1890s, there were two turntables (one each side of the line) at Cannon Street, still on the c1914 edition, and both gone by 1951 revision. At that time (mid 1890s) lines from Cannon Street to both London Bridge and...

Yes, the turntable is visible. Thinking it wasn't built for anything bigger than a 4-4-0...

I'm not sure what the original plan was: how things developed in the early days - the 1860s and 1870s - seems to have been interesting. Worth noting that Charing Cross opened first, Cannon Street not for another year or two. And initially a shuttle between the two was sensible: the Metropolitan...

An W3W bad example is "There’s been a train derailment, on the Clyde", at likely.stage.sock - typing it in to W3W, it will also suggest likely.stages.sock, both in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire (though one isn't), and both close to a railway line. Only about a mile apart - but with the River...

I came across a Scottish post code, which covered two addresses five or ten miles apart - they were 'next door neighbours' along the road, there just wasn't anything in between (except moorland). And another couple in Scotland, both of which also applied to addresses across the border, in...

The Italians had built relatively short narrow gauge systems based on Benghazi and Tripoli, that remained separate, which lasted until about 1965. In WW2 the Egyptian Western Desert line was extended across the border into Libya, but that extension was dismantled after the war. Another Italian...

There was an equally isolated and short lived railway built to support the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868, running inland from the coast at Zula (now in Eritrea) - I'm not sure how far it got. Built I think with material supplied from India - the main force was from the Bombay component of the army...

While my 'living memory' was that we always (?) had TV - Black and White, with two channels (BBC and ITV - whichever regional company it was (and they did change over time)) - I do remember BBC2 coming in (still B&W, but on 625 rather than 405 lines), that we didn't have until we'd got a new TV...

I recall a presentation, when Gatwick Express was new, by the then area manager at East Croydon at which he said it had changed his number one complaint from 'all these Gatwick passengers filling our trains with their luggage' to 'all these half empty Gatwick expresses wizzing through that we...

T stock would I think never have run so, with its slam doors. Possibly some around of F stock, before it being converted to air doors late 30s. What did happen - well into my living memory, so into the 70s (?) - on both surface and tube stock - was in hot weather, the guard would keep his door...

For Tramlink, not very much, just a couple of bits in central Croydon are more or less where the old tramways ran: along George Street, and a short bit in Lower Church Street, then Tamworth Road and Station Road.

Pictures have been published - see, e.g., in Brian Hardy's Underground Train File Surface Stock book. H stock largely went in the very early 50s, a couple of trains remained for the Earl's Court-Olympia shuttle up to 1958. The other late survivor was the ex Met saloon stock on the Circle line...

I'm trying to remember where it was I saw the next train coming into one end of the platform, while the previous train was leaving the other end. On Tramlink (not quite the same thing, as on sight rather than block working) its not uncommon at busy stops in the central area.

What is the situation over Longcross? If I recall correctly, the site it served used to be MoD, strictly no unauthorised entry, and I recall reading/hearing of someone who alighted, rather the worse for wear, from the last train one night, and was told (by the armed guard) that the only way out...

While my 'living memory' (what I remember myself) goes back to about 1960, while I was growing up (1960s) the grown ups around me had virtually all been through the war, and included many Victorians, and their memories and experiences came to me as 'second hand memories', so going back to about...

For legitimate, correct, FOC 'duty travel' against a correct roster (as wasn't the case for the travel in the Telegraph story), am I correct in assuming that - somehow - some payment is made by the FOCs to the TOCs (directly or otherwise)? Is this just a 'lump sum', or is it, to greater or...

Princes Risborough North Signal Box is another which is preserved and is opened periodically - it's part of the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, but has its own website https://www.risboroughbox.org.uk/ . I think you will need to contact them as to when it's open to the public, but I...

There are several threads about (or related to) the Tube Challenge (use the search function), which include links to other fora. Probably worth reviewing for advice, etc. On the specific issue of GWR requirements, my instant thought is that - unless you've had some experience and are...

I think the scanner in question has been revealed as an Epson V800 or V850, which has the ability for transmissive scanning (light source and sensor on opposite sides), and the OP and BeeBus have sorted this issue out. I came upon this...