Trivia: Stops You Wouldn't Expect

[IanD]

I used to commute from Bexhill to Victoria for a short while. In the evening, one could change at Hampden Park and catch an eastbound train, getting to Bexhill 20 minutes before the train that I had got off on its way to Eastbourne.

Get the xx17 off Victoria today and change at Hampden Park on to the Brighton-Ore service that stopped there 12 minutes earlier! Gets you to stations East of Eastbourne 20 minutes quicker than changing at Eastbourne. And the overall journey time is a minute or so quicker than taking the through trains at xx47.