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Fantastic - thank you everyone for quickly confirming! I'm glad I wasn't in the wrong, but it's still unsettling to be told that you're at risk of being fined. I'll put a complaint in with GTR and see what they come back with - and i'll update this thread when they do too.

I wouldn't quite describe it as a Maltese Cross, but it certainly has a cross on it. The route was "✝ Specified LNER trains & connecting services". I did point out the cross to the member of gateline staff, and they were still insistent that I had to take the tube if it wasn't part of the...

I periodically travel for work between Tonbridge and York. When booking through my employer's booking portal and selecting Advance fares, sometimes i'm offered an itinerary that explicitly has a counted place reservation on Thameslink for the cross-London transfer, and sometimes I am not...

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Apologies for bumping, but if anyone could tell me what formed this working on Monday the 4th i'd greatly appreciate it!

Can anyone tell me what worked 2W50 1458 Dover Priory to London Charing Cross on Monday the 4th of September? I know the front unit after attachments at Ashford was 375917, but I didn't catch the rear two unfortunately. Thanks in advance!

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Some interesting changes to Maidstone East services. The handful of recently introduced Blackfriars services go and are replaced with... an all-day service to Charing Cross. Timings when they join the South Eastern Mainline at Chislehurst seems a little bit tight though - they're timed to pass...

GTR told stakeholders the following on Friday; Extra details are to follow over the next few days. They are one of the few operators that already run overnight trains of course, the Bedford - Three Bridges flow through the Thameslink core.

There's a few pictures/videos floating about of this for anyone interested in seeing things in unusual places; Video - passing through Didcot Parkway towards Reading. Pictures - at Reading. Video - passing through Melksham towards Exeter.

Network Rail have now posted a video of this on Twitter. Tweet contains a video showing a roof peeling off an adjacent building and landing on the tracks at Banbury station.

This was mentioned at a recent stakeholder meeting, but reception was somewhat lukewarm - with just 3 return paths and only at weekday off-peak times. The argument Southeastern put forward was that they wanted to test things away from busy periods before a potential increase. However, there were...

Unfortunately, weekday truncation at Paddock Wood has been the norm since the September 2020 timetable change - aside from a few early morning, late night and schools trains. This is a regression from the existing timetable, and was allegedly done for performance and reliability reasons despite...

Network Rail have put out a statement.

The Redhill to Tonbridge line will be closed this evening to allow the rerailing work to take place. The last trains will be the 18:00 Redhill to Tonbridge and the 19:01 Tonbridge to Redhill, with buses thereafter. Edit: Network Rail have also posted up a close-up photo of the derailment on...

I made out roughly 30 carriages worth of 465/466 in there, along with a Soutthern 377/3. I may be miscounting slightly - it's a little tricky on a zoomed-in photo! If it is 30 carriages though, then that's 3 full sets out of the Tunbridge Wells - London diagrams given they normally run as...

Southeastern are now estimating that the disruption will continue through to Monday night - with fewer trains running between Tunbridge Wells and London Charing Cross on Monday. As a result, they're warning that "Hastings Line services are likely to be busier than normal throughout the day and...

Thank you both for the information. I notice that Southeastern's disruption page also now mentions that "Because of some damage to a part of the signalling system, train drivers have to get verbal instructions before they travel over the junction". Earlier on, I did see that someone was at the...

Earlier in the day, prior to Southern getting a unit from the other end of the line, Southeastern trains which were diverted via Redhill due to engineering works between Tonbridge and Sevenoaks were making stops at the intermediate stations to cover - giving stations like Penshurst direct...

Interestingly, both the West Coast Partnership and West Midlands Trains Emergency Measures Agreements remove the need for customer experience surveys (e.g. National Rail Passenger Survey) to be carried out, unless otherwise instructed by the Secretary of State. Specifically, Schedules 7.2...