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Paddington-South Ruislip, and Battersea Park-Wandsworth Road: both daily (weekdays only)

While that might be a reasonable expectation. In practice I believe it has been based on direction at start of train's journey. That caught me many years ago when I had a 'facing' reservation from Banbury in the ex Edinburgh portion of an Edinburgh & Glasgow (join up at Carstairs) - Brighton...

At http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html there are many BR diagram books, including for coaches, which include wights for most types... but even for the same type (diagram) there are differences between lots

From Wikipedia: 1756 government service of monthly mail brigs from Falmouth, Cornwall, to New York, carrying some passengers - it doesn't say what happened to these after 1776. 1817/18 - regular monthly service (sailing packets) by Black Ball Line from New York to Liverpool (first 'scheduled'...

It's there, but not conspicuous:

The line to Selsdon was built as a branch off the line to Addiscoombe, as was the Hayes line: the Addiscombe line came first. So - in effect the answer to the OP is, yes, there was a plan to build a line to Selsdon/Sanderstead, and it came fruition - but that line was closed before the...

In terms of dis-trust, Which? had the railways second to car dealers. As an indication as to why the railway is distrusted, the proportion of this forum devoted to fare queries and disputes, and similar issues, might be a good pointer... And a piece here...

Reading the letter from TfL quoted above it is in the conditional (we would need... etc), and would seem to be generic, i.e. not having considered your specific card with PAYG balance: was there another later saying 'we have...' quantifying the refund? What did it say about the PAYG balance? Did...

One thing I am surprised has not been raised is that - AIUI - some BR ships were steam ships and were in service for some time after 1968. ISTR that the Humber ferries were actually the last.

The Woodside-Sanderstead line was closed (WW1 closure) until electrification in 1935, so no steam services to eliminate (don't know if there was any freight at that time) - electrification/reopening was essentially to provide a few more Southern Electric suburban stations in what was then a ripe...

Woodside-Selsdon closed 1983 (I think), and was semaphore to its end. Not to be confused with EE to Addiscombe which lasted to 1997, and was semaphore (at A) until the signal box was burnt out a year or two earlier, after which it was no signal one train working as I recall. EE went colour light...

Wondering - certainly for some of the less likely OSIs - what proportion of their use is actually OSI, and what is intended to be 'new journey'.

Yes - but on the other hand, for that train, it is also reasonable that they can arrive on the platform at 16:24:50, spend five seconds crossing the platform, and jump on the train at 16:24:55 - with the doors closing behind them (at 16:25:00) As a passenger, my expectation is that...

Standard practice was that there would be a 'railway' border station (which may have had both sets of 'national' border officers, or just one) - one side or the other (I think Brenner/Brennero is the only one actually on the border) where operating rules/signalling/electrification/crews changed...

No, that just moves where the crowding occurs. Wimbledon is another example - where there are barriers, rather than ramps to mid platform - effectively they just annoyingly move the 'platform entrance' further from the station entrance. Problem with the ramps at East Croydon is that they end...

Addiscombe was originally Croydon (Addiscombe Road), and was the original southern terminus of the extended Mid Kent line (initially was to Beckenham Junction, for connection to what become the LCDR); the other lines (to Hayes and Seldson (Road) / Sanderstead) followed later. Until...

The Eastern Counties volume of the Regional History, by D I Gordon, gives 6 Sept 1882 for 'completion' of the diversion, and doubling of the Harwich Branch (had been single beyond Mistley), and 15 March 1883 for closure of the original line with, subsequent lifting (without saying how long this...

The other point in regard to the original 'streamliner' diesels is that to a significant extent the various A-B, A-B-A, etc. combinations were initially at least regarded as single locomotives, with a single number (and suffix letter for each unit), primarily for manning/union agreement purposes...

The more intriguing of the pair is the Class 23 Type 2 'baby deltic', which had a higher rated engine than the class 55 Deltics (2/3 the power from half the cylinders) - for a single engineed version of the Deltic using the same engine as the class 55 in a 1650hp Type 3 Bo-Bo would have seemed a...

The importance of train identities is to tell people which train is which, i.e. which one is theirs. Any system will do, as long as (a) it adequately does so, and (b) it is universally used. We have our system, others have theirs - and everyone finds anyone else's rather meaningless If (to pull...