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I have :) But on a pass, and it's mostly Day Rover holders otherwise.

According to the current KWVR magazine, Damems still has an NCR21, but as a TTI I've never seen a ticket issued on it. There's a print-your-own-ticket NCR21 in the waiting room at Keighley but I don't think that's quite what waa meant :)

A bit off topic, but that refers to "disruption" - does GC cancelling its train come under that heading?

The route was double track right through to East Grinstead and had as many trains north of HK as Eridge-Hailsham, so there was no obvious plan to close t it - indeed, the SR proposed to electrify through to South Croydon via Oxted in their "final fling" postwar scheme (possible prewar too). As...

Presumably service recovery after the late start - it formed the 0845 back.

Central?

I would have thought the principal wear is on the face of the cogwheel where it engages with the rack, so roughly perpendicular to the rail.

Which is open 12 hours on strike days, so affecting evening trains.

Your friend will hear from them when they follow this up, which could be a few weeks. If they contact you at all (and they may not do so) it will be after that.

No, it must have been a couple of years later - see below. Early SR days at a guess! Became a Salisbury terminator (33+8TC). The Brighton-Plymouth was retimed, as Taunton said causing much annoyance (not to mention resentment from ex-SR people). It was withdrawn as a daily service after a...

Took some finding again, but the 10.23SX Pompey due 12.40 , empty to Streatham Hill, is shown as C.B.C. Intriguing BTW is the use of a solo 4CEP on the overnight Gatwicks - presumably easier to do tickets than a BIL/HAL?

Certainly included in First for a year or two.

There are (were?) private compartments, but only bookable via SNCF. And not cheap for a solo traveller.

No, they are being treated as people without tickets. Once the penalty fare is paid, that is an end to it.

It seems fairly standard LNER practice to spread the load over more than one train, certainly at busier times of day.