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Something that has always puzzled me and I wonder if the wise people here can help. When the extension to Terminal 5 was opened, was any consideration given to reversing the route trains took to Terminal 4, so that a more consistent and easier to understand service pattern could be put in place...

Huge numbers of rail replacement buses carrying fresh air around South London today. I’m curious about some of the weird routings for these buses. Today the line from Shortlands to Victoria was closed leaving a number of suburban stations with no service. Buses were serving all stations from...

This is a strange one but it’s been bugging me whenever I go through. The island platform at South Bermondsey has had all its signs replaced with the tiniest station name signs I’ve ever seen. Never seen similar anywhere else on Southern (or any other operator’s stations for that matter). The...

I’m a fan of the old MF67 and MP73 legacy stock on the Paris Metro, the ones with the ‘latch’ to open the doors. Based on a recent visit the MP73 seem to be gradually being replaced on Line 6, but how long do the MF67s on lines 10, 12, 3 and 3bis have? Has anything been said about expected...

Hi I need to travel from Berlin to Copenhagen on October and was looking at the Snalltaget night train, booking a private cabin. I have seen some terrible reviews on Trustpilot though, but wondered if anyone among the more informed audience we benefit from here had experiences? I sometimes think...

Noted two interesting changes to South London metro services promised for December: - Steve White saying in latest Modern Railways that Victoria-Orpington will be going to 4TPH all day, which would be very welcome and a return to the pre-Covid frequency. This is badly needed, especially on...

Hi Booking a trip from London to York for two adults and a child this Saturday with advanced first tickets. LNER’s website, and its twitter people confirmed, family and friend railcard discounts apply to first advance fares. However as you can see in these pictures, taking the 1500 train as an...

As a humble passenger with an interest in the railway, I’m curious how the number of staff at a station is determined. I should stress that while this is prompted by the current strikes I’m not taking sides here, just genuinely curious. The station I use every day, Herne Hill, usually has at...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #22 originally in this thread. The Southern twitter feed is worth a look. Overcrowding been pretty bad in the peaks on the South London trains that have been reduced to 4 or 5 car, especially where services had already been reduced to half hourly. Effectively capacity is...

Waiting at Peckham Rye recently, I was struck by the extraordinary variety of operators and liveries for a 4 platform station, all at high frequency. 8 Southern per hour (reduced to 4 much of the week at present) and 8 Overground from platforms 1 and 2, and 8 Thameslink (at peak times) and 4...

Just tried to book return tickets to Nottingham from St Pancras on 9-10 October. Got there in the end but website was really unsatisfactory, two questions for this group if anyone has any insights: - It kept proactively offering me first class upgrades for very small sums ranging from £1.50 (for...

For the last few years SE have amended suburban services so that they omit stops at certain stations off peak during the leaf fall period, which causes quite a bit of customer inconvenience. The bit I don’t get is surely leaf fall on the tracks would be worst first thing in the morning, and the...

Tried to find an answer to this elsewhere but can’t see it’s been discussed before. Which National Rail stations have a) lifts and b) escalators as their main access - ie excluding where disabled lifts are available, more where an able bodied passenger would be expected to use them to access the...

I bought an annual season ticket for the first time between my local station West Dulwich and London Terminals, and was pleased to discover that the ticket also bears on it the words ‘also valid from Tulse Hill’, another nearby station, which opens up a number of other useful opportunities...