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I forgot that there's two-way traffic on the service road alongside the north side of the A3 along that stretch, and the bustitution service needn't have to cross the main carriageway at any point.

I saw a 701 near Kingston station yesterday, and the angle of the sun shining on the carriage enabled me to see that there had been lots of vegetation scraping along the side. As it was in the new GB Railways livery, this could have occurred only in the last few weeks. The amount of vegetation...

Thanks for the correction.

Kingston station was originally on the LSWR main line in open countryside about a mile and a half south of the town centre, and was rebuilt in the 1840s half a mile down the line. It was renamed Kingston Junction in 1852, which is odd, as, although it was a junction station, the two branches...

That's true; I noted this in my original post, as there's no way to get from the down to the up line at Kingston except by using the facing crossover at the country end of the down platform on to the up line, which effectively takes a ten-car train into Hampton Wick station. I was making the...

Kingston would be a more suitable station than Hampton Wick for this event, as it has much better access; the latter station has steep and narrow staircases up to the platforms, and is unsuitable for disabled people. It's only a slightly longer walk from Kingston station to the Kingston gate...

Because of engineering works, there are no services between New Malden and Surbiton on the weekend of 6-7 June. A replacement bus has been laid on between the two stations, some of which also call at Berrylands en route. On Saturday, the half-hourly Shepperton and Kingston Loop via Kingston...

Perhaps a tram station could be built on the curve leading to Wimbledon station; there seems to be sufficient space at the north-east end of the old Wimbledon down yard to build one. Then the former tram platform in the station could be used for services to Sutton. The main problem I foresee is...

Wooden keys can indeed dry out and shrink. I was working on the Cob on the Ffestiniog Railway back in the 1970s, checking the keys and oiling the fishplates, and several keys were loose and were replaced by new ones which were then wedged with a special sledge-hammer between the rail and chair...

I agree. Lots of people walk to and from London termini: take a look at Westminster, Hungerford, Waterloo and London Bridges during the rush hour. I commuted to Waterloo or Vauxhall for all my working life, except for two years, and always walked to my workplaces, except in heavy rain when I'd...

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A 'bustitution' trip from Berrylands to New Malden station is obliged to take a rather roundabout route. There is no road connection east from Berrylands towards New Malden, it's a footpath; nor is Lower Marsh Lane to the north-west a roadway, it's a bike-track and footpath. From Berrylands to...

My dad, born 1925, always called the BR Southern Region 'the Southern', presumably because it was the Southern Railway when he was growing up, and it was still 'the Southern' for him after privatisation, regardless of what company was actually running the services.

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The lack of provision of step-free access to the new Berrylands station has been a matter of concern in the vicinity. I would have thought that it is possible to provide a ramp up to each of the platforms; the embankment is not that high, and there is a fair amount of space around the station on...

Back in the early 1970s, I was standing behind a USAF Boeing KC-97 at a Greenham Common open house when it started up its four Pratt and Whitney radial engines. I've never seen so much smoke from an internal combustion engine, either before or since.

My dad said that Liverpool Street in steam days was quite something: at busy times it was impossible to see across the station because of all the smoke.

Another aspect to the old Thameslink station that I noticed was that the platforms were quite narrow with many columns, not really suitable for the large numbers of passengers alighting or boarding in the rush hour once the Thameslink line became popular.

The Thameslink station entrance in the Pentonville Road was a handy exit and entrance to the Tube lines if one wished -- as I often do -- to go the Caledonian Road, thus avoiding the crowded main Underground concourse. The last time I tried to go that way, I walked along the corridor from the...

I've been driving for over 50 years, having passed my test in 1973, and I don't think that there has been much of a change in respect of driving behaviour. I remember fast drivers (an uncle of mine would delight in whizzing us around in his Cortina at 50 or 60mph along 30mph main roads)...