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I recall seeing some figures from TfL over the routes passengers had taken for one of the less obvious flows - Waterloo to King's Cross? - (based on their mobile phone tracking), and there were some very odd (but surprisingly popular) choices - the last couple of per cent were grouped as 'other'.

Did any of the Plymouth liners make calls in France (as some of the Southhamption ones did)? The GWR was a part owner of Victoria, sharing the LCDR side - and there was broad gauge through to it. The SER never had an interest in Victoria - it was LCDR before the SECR combination. On a slightly...

A quick look at the TfL journey planner for Paddington to Victoria gave an option of a 50 minute walk at 'moderate' pace (max walk time of 60 minutes), or 54 minutes by cycle hire (!?). More generally, this question raises the issue of when does an out of station interchange become a break of...

There are - if memory serves - a few (a couple?) other single platform (serving both directions) stations on otherwise double track lines not mentioned above - two that come to mind are Ware and Maryport. Others with more knowledge may like to comment more on these, and any others. But as with...

My understanding is that - as far as the Kent ports were concerned - it was actually an SECR initiative, after the connections in the Petts Wood area permitted it - implemented on resumption of civilian Continental services in 1919 after WW1. 1771429631 My understanding is that initially...

The LBSCR's 'West End' terminus was Victoria (which also let them dominate the territory between the London & Croydon and L&SW lines) and, AIUI, Charing Cross was a reaction to it by the SER. The other thing to remember is that all these West End and City extensions were very expensive - to...

While the Pimlico (Battersea Wharf) station opened in 1858, and Victoria in 1860, the 'direct' line between Balham and East Croydon didn't open until 1862 (and the link to West Croydon not until 1865) - until then there was only the line via Crystal Palace, also used by LCDR trains at that...

My reading of the penalty fares notice is that it doesn't say there is a ticket machine there (let alone where it is), only that if there is, you should use it. Why doesn't it? And some alternative views in which you can play 'spot the ticket machine' - here , here and here. There are signs...

One problem with IATA codes is that a complete list is not published and readily available (or at least, not one I've found without having to pay IATA a large sum - has anybody succeeded?), only various incomplete ones that I have doubts over; and another that - particularly as railway stations...

My starting point would be to link London and Central Scotland, i.e. Edinburgh and Glasgow, with a spec to beat planes (so 3 hours or little more) - this is the game changer to justify the whole project: the UK is then lucky that so many of its other cities would be close to being en route. Then...

My thought is that perhaps the best thing is to donate to them to your nearest preserved railway (or did he have a favourite?) - while they vary, most have some sort of sales operation, able to make the best of them.

Going back, the electric telegraph was developed in the late 1830s and early 1840s - much the same period as the railway network was developing - and the railway companies quickly recognised it as the complementary technology they needed to control, in essentially real time, their widespread...

The DB ETA 150 (became 515) and ETA 176 (517) types of the 1950s were very much 'modern' second generation battery railcars (Akku Triebwagen) on German railways. Their earliest dated from the 1880s and 90s, and while these may have been someawhat experimental, a significant number were built in...

My understanding is that the Quadarts (4 coach) were for the GN section, and Quintarts for the GE. Also that the GE regarded the Fairlop loop, and the line via Woodford to Epping/Ongar as 'up-market' - they did not (or certainly resisted) offering workmen's fares on them: whether that made any...

How far back do you want to go? There were connections at both New Cross and New Cross Gate onto what became BR Southern Region, and at Shoreditch onto the GE main line into Liverpool Street, with through workings of both passenger (only excursions and specials post electrification, but before...

'XX MIGLIA' - XX is Twenty in Roman numerals, Venti in Italian, to explain the signs. At Ventimiglia the main freight yard is up a branch line off the coastal main line, that appears to be double track, but is actually two single lines - one connecting to the west (i.e. towards France) is...

My understanding over the London Passenger Pooling Scheme (name of what is being referred to - which also included LPTB buses and coaches, which drove which main line stations were included) is that when there was a significant (or not so) 'network' (openings/closures/electrification/etc.)...

By the 1830s - when 'trunk' railway construction got going - both Birmingham and Manchester were major industrial and commercial centres (even if - before the Great Reform Act - they weren't cities sending MPs to Parliament), and a sensible national plan might well have built the 'WCML' to...

Given that both the LMSR and LNER had pre-war (or later) proposals for new, larger express passenger locos (4-6-4/4-8-2/4-8-4), I am slightly surprised that British Railways under Riddles did not come up with something similar, rather than a new 'Class 8', as 'Duke of Gloucester' was. There...

Traditionally a service was provided on Christmas Day - essentially a fairly standard Sunday service - up until 1960. From 1961 a steadily reducing special service was provided, up until 1979 - 1980 was the first year of 'no services'. Boxing Day services similarly were provided up to 1974 -...