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Does the programme involve doing anything to the exterior of trains? I travelled on one last week which had been through the project internally and looked much better for it, but the exterior looked just as shabby

I’d agree with that. The problem with the reduction to 6 cars is that the 377/3 units are also very low density and not really suited to inner suburban services (I think they were intended for Coastway originally?). That’s mostly no bad thing for us passengers as they’re super comfortable and...

As a frequent user, the two annoying things are the 15-15-30 gaps in the evening since the Beckenham Junction train was reduced to hourly as a Covid measure, and the 30-minute Sunday frequency. These things, combined with all trains reduced to 6 car when the 455s were withdrawn, reflects this...

Services halved on the ‘Mildmay’ Line according to NR site, which seems a bit dramatic. And not going to help passenger welfarr

Single 376s seem to have become normal on Victoria to Gravesend services, which is a big reduction from the 8 car 465 formations it has always been before. They can probably manage most of the time but must be cosy in the peaks. It also seems there's an extra diagram on this route as they now...

Endorse the ones above and a few others: - Bond Street, entrance to Jubilee. Ignore the second set of down escalators which takes you via a convoluted route below the platforms and back up. Instead turn left at the bottom of the first escalator and then use the original Jubilee escalators down...

I mean the HEX station when I said ‘rail station’

This is what I was getting at with my original post but understand now that the single track branch is too long to do this. My original reasoning being that T2/3 is by far the busiest station at LHR, T4 much quieter, and a ‘via T4’ train not only has a long detour but also the ‘up to 8 minutes’...

Think you and few others are misunderstanding my original question. My idea was that all trains run from Hatton Cross to T2/3, than alternate between heading to T4 and T5. On return, they reverse and head back the same way. That way there would still be direct trains in both directions from...

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...

Paris was awful midweek lunchtime last week. Oddly the day before St Pancras had literally zero queue, walked straight through!

The thing I seem to see too often is every door saying ‘this door will not open at the next station’ which is quite funny for a regular but causes a lot of anxiety for infrequent travellers

Also great news for Catford Loop. Regardless of whether the off peak service is increased , simply having a direct service to Farringdon and St Pancras will be a massive plus. It’s not unusual to get off one at Blackfriars and have a 6-8 minute wait for a norrthbound Thameslink, and southbound...

Completely this. A few months back someone attacked me quite forcefully on this threat saying that so many hundreds of tags were being removed every week, but they clearly weren’t and had been there for months or not had a proper attempt at cleaning them so ended up still there but with this...

credit where it’s due, there’s been a massive improvement in the Central Line interiors in the last month or so.

Another vote for London Bridge from a daily user. If you’re going from Southern to SE, the interchange is much slower than the old footbridge, and the distance to the tube is interminable. The high numbered Southern platforms were built on the cheap with only one escalator to each and one lift...

I used to commute on it in the 2000s and from memory it was more like 15 minutes to the branches. It was very frustrating in the evening as you could be sure an SR train would depart just as the ELL train crawled into the bay at NXG. On the plus side it was always a very spirited ride south from...

regardless of the political points, the graffiti situation on the Central Line is out of control and nothing seems to be being done to address it. I welcome MPs with constituents on the Central Line, whatever their party, putting pressure on TFL and the Mayor to address it, the recent...

Is there anywhere I can find internal pictures of the SE slam door units? I have lots of memories from childhoood but they’re all a bit vague!

Agreed it’s a busy station but Denmark Hill is on a different line to the buses South Eastern is sending there, and Loughborough junction only has a few peak hour trains a day from it so it’s not like it’s a journey the people being inconvenienced ever do.