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Ahhh. I stand corrected then.

From the station now called Surbiton to the "new" Kingston Station is 1.4 miles as the crow flies but over 4 miles by rail. I was interested to learn that it was renamed Kingston Junction for a while, presumably like Clapham Junction being near to but not in Clapham, and being a junction but...

The problem with the statement as I see it is that it could be interpreted that, if there hadn't been a fault with the AWS which turned the signal to red, the signal would have remained green after the 810 had passed it. So if, for instance, a train had made a routine station stop there would be...

Although I assume that a maximum speed of 45mph is all that would be required for non stop run pathed in between passenger services that stop at most if not all stations on the route.

I remember being held at Newcastle for an hour due to a fatality in the Sandy area, must have been over 200 miles away, although probably fewer intermediate stations than between Crewe and Bushey

I'd guess that it' down to the software company they use for ticket sales rather than the railway itself being unhelpful though. A lot of restaurants seem to be the same when you try to book on line for a table at short notice.

Now I understand why having a working toilet was so important to you! Although at my age I'd probably need one beer or no beer.

I found it very interesting although I missed the first 25 minutes or so (will catch up tonight). I was a bit surprised that only a relatively short distance had been covered by then. but then in fairness the programme title was Somerset so maybe reasonable that the Dorset part of the line only...

Only a few years ago it was "Sutton Surrey". 1726687418 I remember back in the 50s the LT 93 bus, which ran through North Cheam where my Grandparents lived, had "PUTNEY BDG" on the blind which as a primary school kid i read as Putney Bog. I remember telling my parents that I wanted to go there...

Do you know if the free upgrade will take much more hard drive space or require a higher specification computer than TSW4? I assume that once an upgrade is done you can then buy the Euston to MK route separately. I must say I bought TSW4 but haven't been over keen on the Peterborough - Doncaster...

One that has become more and more urban as time has gone by is the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway, which as far as I can recall ran through countryside for most of its route when I first went on it in the 1970s. Now the first half of the ride runs largely between the bottom of peoples'...

The only times I've ever used one as public transport were to travel from Haworth (where we were staying for a few days) to Saltaire via Keighley to look round the village and Salts Mill, and maybe a couple of times in the 70s when we viisited Dartmouth on the back of a Merrymaker day trip to...

Just to say, in the end I bought he DeLuxe edition of TSW4, with a view to buying the Goblin and probably Fife Circle routes in due course. I think i'm going to like TSW but I'm finding it a bit complicated in some respects, for example took me ages to find my way back to the "Fundementals"...

Crikey, thanks very much Energy for such a comprehensive reply at this ungodly hour of the morning. Very much appreciated.

My wife's London Travelcard got "eaten" by a ticket machine at a District Line station last month. Luckily there was a staff member (albeit with a slightly negative attitude) there who retrieved it after quite a few minutes - it would probably have been easier if he has some sort of tool such as...

I bought the original Microsoft Train Simulator about 24 years ago, which even back then I found totally underwhelming partly due to simply having just four levels of train/engine noise and the fact you could stop a train travelling at about 60mph in half the length of a platform. I then...

Can' help with the track connectors I'm afraid, having inherited quite a lot of extra track in the mid 60s from a friend who had converted his layout to two rail. I do remember the two rail version of the class being City of London, IO must say I much preferred having Duchess of Montrose to that...

I was given the Duchess of Montrose train set somewhere between Christmas 1959 and early 1961 I would say. Hornby Dublo 2 rail was definitely out by then, and three rail sets were discontinued soon after although I had no trouble getting a couple of new locos in the following years. I wouldn't...

I'd say that it was more of an "lack of consideration for one's fellow traveller" thing than a "Merseyrail" thing.

Thinking of that, the Northern line had an arguably confusing name bearing in mind that it runs further south than any other underground line. Maybe it should be renamed the Oval Line after one of the stations it passes through.