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The original plan of the Southern Railway was a loop line re-joining the original Mole Valley route at Leatherhead. The line was opened as far as Chessington South with new stations en route encouraging the spread of speculative housing. The 1947 Green Belt quoshed the possibilty of similar...

This may have been covered on another thread, but if electrifications of the Hants & Berks will not extend further west than Newbury what will happen to the current semi-fasts to Bedwyn?

Eltham Well Hall was resited from the west side to the east side of Well Hall Road in 1985 in connection with construction of the Rochester Way relief road. It was renamed simply 'Eltham' and on its opening Eltham Park - less than 1km to its east - was closed.

Crystal Palace (Low Level). One of (then) two grand stations built to cater for traffic to the eponymous palace. Despite rationalisation of the buildings and platforms (most recently for the introduction of London Overground services) this junction station remains impressive, and completely out...

The South London line from London Bridge to Victoria via Peckham Rye has some great elevated views, particularly at sunset.

Is there not capacity on the Hope Valley route for an additional service at least two-hourly each way? If there is, a regular service could be considered - assuming there was sufficient capacity elsewhere on the route - from Manchester to Leicester via Derby. This would revive links lost with...

A tunnel between (to the east of) Clapham Junction and (to the west of) Stratford with underground stations at Victoria then under the Thames to Waterloo, then back under the Thames to Blackfriars and Liverpool Street. The tunnel could connect services from the Windsor Lines in the west -...

Hunstanton in Norfolk springs to mind - a resort town it is 18 miles from the nearest railhead at Kings Lynn.

Westbury-Bath South Bermondsey-Peckham Rye (great views of London)

Exactly - many of whom would then wish to transfer to eastbound Crossrail trains for their onward journeys to the West End and City. It would then make sense to have some Crossrail journeys originating at Paddington - at least in the AM peak - rather than trying to cram Paddington passengers...

If HS2 runs as planned into Euston, capacity at that terminus would need to be released, and one way of achieving this would be to divert the LM outer-suburban services to Crossrail. It seems to me that a potential problem with extending all services beyond Paddington deep into commuterland is...

Yes, the LB&SCR South London Line from London Bridge to Victoria via Peckham Rye was electrified with an overhead system in 1909, and this was subsequently extended southwards as far as Sutton and Coulsdon north. Following Grouping in 1923, the new Southern Railway adopted the third-rail system...

The ex-LCDR branch from Nunhead to Crystal Palace High-Level was electrified using the 3rd-rail system by the Southern Railway along with the rest of its London and suburban network in the 1920s. The line was closed in 1955, the only part of the old Southern Electric to be abandoned.

It might have made more sense to electrify the Midland Main Line first. This is self-contained and would require a fleet of electric-only new trains. The ex-Midland HSTs could then have been redeployed to strengthen the GW fleet for the south-west of England services, as well as helping out on...

Yes, though there could also be some faster trains not stopping there. A sample off-peak service pattern could be (ex-Marylebone): 4 tph Harrow then all stops to Amersham with 2tph extended to Aylesbury Parkway (and possibly Milton Keynes Central) 1 tph Harrow then non-stop to Amersham then...

I should think that capacity constraints between Neasden and Marylebone, and at Marylebone itself, would be an obstacle to the more ambitious plans for expansion. If they could be overcome, I'd suggest electrification of the Aylesbury route (and perhaps beyond to Bletchley?), and the takeover by...

Berney Arms on the Norwich-Great Yarmouth route sits in the middle of a fen with only the pub of the same name as company, and is not accessible by road.