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The Northern Line extension half built by the LPTB - who inherited the Watford and Edgware Rly powers - made it on to Bartholomew's maps of the late 1940s, so can be seen on the NLS web site here . As you can see, it missed Stanmore - the proposal was to go round, rather than over, the...

As I recall when 'Customer Charter' first came in (so I think pre privatisation) one of the standards it did contain was the time within which you should be sold a ticket (including queuing) - vague memory is it perhaps 10 minutes (but it did vary between peak and off-peak).

My thought: if it matters which train is which, then there has to be a manner in which they can be distinguished. And it needs to be consistently applied, so that all concerned know (and know that they know) which is the relevant train. What this thread shows is that - with just time and a...

In the process of developing what became the Victoria line from the original Crossrail like large diameter tunnels of the London Plan into something that could actually be agreed, afforded and authorised, it changed from a main line (Big 4/BR) through working system to a 'conventional' LT 'tube'...

Current Fremch time zone (Central European, +1 relative to UK) is - I understand - a legacy of the German occupation during WW2. From 1911 (before then Paris time) to 1940 it used West European time (same as GB)

Perhaps - NOT - we should repeat the 1947 experience, when there were 4 time changes: from GMT to BST to BDST, and then back to BST, and to GMT. And the Irish experience of 1st October 1916 could only have happened there, when at 2:00am the clocks had to be changed from 3:00am to 2:25:21am (for...

A challenge I thought of, but never quite worked out who to pose it to, or actually send it: What are the COMPLETE instructions for a person with an Oyster card making a journey (within the Oyster area) as to whether - when they see an Oyster reader - they should 'touch' it, or NOT 'touch' it...

A quick wonder - is there a 'spell check' type function available which could offer an amendment to provide the station name/whatever? (And an aside - over time, have 'CRS' (and other) station codes been unique? Or have some been reused?)

Maybe - but I would ask why on earth not? (She was I understand 'on duty', just not working her booked train)

A couple of thoughts I had looking through the report, which came out of it, but didn't seem to be commented on: 1) The 'conductor travelling as passenger' was able to contact the (civil) emergency services (para 582) by dialling 999 (from their mobile phone) immediately after the accident; was...

My guess would be the LBSCR A1/A1X 'Terrier' 0-6-0Ts on the Hayling Island Branch service from the 1890s (or maybe a bit before) until closure of the line in 1963 - so about 70 years.

The bridge pictured is on the Transalpina line, with a standard FS overhead electrification mast visible.

According to the BR LMR 'Guide to the four position train identification system' (c1961) (from http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html ), a second character of T was used for excursion and special passenger trains local to the LMR, or for trip freight trains.

As a slightly different point for the same circumstance: what is the boundary for 60+ Oyster, and London Freedom passes, on non-TfL NR services: is it the Zone 6 Boundary, or the station marked as the limit (in this case West Drayton), i.e had the OP bought a a ticket from Boudary Zone 6 would...

I don't think it's ever been tried; and while theoretically possible would I think be very difficult to get to work in practice, to get loads matched between the three rails. What has certainly been proposed, if not actually tried has been four - and possibly more - rail systems, arranged in...

Then there are Moor Park (LU station on LU line, through which NR (Chiltern) trains pass, that could but don't stop); and East Putney, Southfields and Wimbledon Park (somewhat similar)

My understanding is that, apart from the ex L&Y/LMSR 10617, BR inherited two others in 1948: one ex LNWR - number 29988 in the (LMSR) coaching stock series - withdrawn November (but had been out of service since Feb 1947) one ex LNER Sentinel No. 2136 Hope, withdrawn February

Look at https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/infrastructure-and-emissions/rail-infrastructure-and-assets/table-6329-station-attributes-for-all-mainline-stations-in-great-britain/ and see if it gives what you want. Also look at other associated pages for surrounding information, which you...