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Oof! That’s quite a long day. Interesting choices, and thanks for the response!

Ooh, awesome! Yes, please do have a look through your notes; I'd be interested in which routes you chose and anything noteworthy you could share.

I found this old thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/london-terminals-to-windsor.219652/ including this tidbit: "A ticket to Datchet used to be the workaround if you wanted to travel one way and return the other. Unfortunately there's a negative easement preventing this nowadays...

It would certainly feel more like using the “real” London Terminal, not the little kiddy table in the cellar.

What kind of ticket would be appropriate for this journey? Is there a "boundary zone 6 to either Windsor station" return ticket? 1721750366 Ah, is that a London Terminal of its own? 1721750403 Thanks!

Thank you for looking those up!

Yes; I would count Overground (and Elizabeth Line, and Thameslink for that matter) as National Rail for this purpose. Although going through any of the Core routes does feel a little bit like cheating! You’re meant to approach the Terminals from the outside. I see. Very true! And you also...

I don't think you can get from, say, Paddington to Clapham Junction without leaving the Zones, can you? Ah, I hadn’t thought of that possibility. Thanks! And then via Willesden Junction and the Watford DC line back into Euston? That would save quite a bit of a journey. Is there any shortcut...

Would it be possible to travel from one London Terminal to another and visit all of them, without using the Underground, using only National Rail, in a terminal–connection–terminal–connection–terminal… journey? (Ideally, with the journey into a Terminal and the journey back out on separate...

Is the logo of that second phase a red square, by any chance?

What is the purpose for the compulsory reservations on the cross-border portion?

If we also count rival metro/commuter train networks, then two that come to mind are Bad Homburg (S) and Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim (U) near Frankfurt and Spandau (S and mainline) / Rathaus Spandau (U). I'm not sure why the U-Bahn line in Bad Homburg didn't connect to the S-Bahn line. For Berlin...

Last I looked (quite a few years ago!) there was still a surprisingly large German rail fan presence in Usenet in the "debx" groups (de.etc.bahn.*).

There will be no connection at Hamburg Hbf as the EC 496 does not stop there, so you're left with about 20 minutes in Altona. It will not travel as far as Hbf. ("Bypass" isn't quite the right word.) It's coming from the north and entering Hamburg from the (north-)west -- the side that Altona...

Is it not possible to make a door that is securely locked from the outside but can easily be opened from the inside?

Though not necessarily a travel fare. Some places in Germany have the concept of a "Bahnsteigkarte": a ticket that allows you access to the platforms (i.e. to the area where holding a valid ticket is mandatory) but is not valid for travel. When I was a child, it was priced at something like...

Wait until you get to Devon; I think St Budeaux Victoria Road and St Budeaux Ferry Road (just outside of Plymouth) are even closer together, especially if you look at the entrances: just about opposite the road from each other. (Google Street View image: https://goo.gl/maps/csJ7iFuM8hMFrpZd9)

They would go well with the ticket barriers installed at the entrance to the station and the passenger information screens showing the "next fastest train to …" featuring at least Looe, Liskeard, and Coombe Junction Halt (which only a handful of trains call at, so you can't just use the...

Warrington West goes with Warrington Central and Warrington Bank Quay but no Warrington East (or North or South). Not sure whether "Central" counts as a compass direction here.

Those all sound like an argument for having more people on board selling tickets and/or more people checking them! In the "pair of units" case, have one in each half, for example. On services known to be full, have one for each coach. Or even two, if the distances between stations are short...