Recent content by AndyNLondon

A possible oddity with these London to Bognor Regis/Portsmouth services is that after they split at Horsham, both portions then call at Barnham. I've had a fun "are we in the right bit of this train" moment on one of those: 12 carriages from Victoria, front 4 to Portsmouth and rear 8 to Bognor...

An observation about the road layout: although the road markings show the underpass as the main carriageway and the crossing as leaving & re-joining it, the physical layout is that the crossing is the straight-line route which the road through the underpass leaves and re-joins. So you've got a...

My most recent experience, around Easter this year, is that they do enforce the 30-minute cut off: travelling with my mum (in her 70s) to visit family in Brussels, she was delayed on the tube and just missed that 30-minute time, and so the automatic ticket barriers rejected her ticket. Staff...

Where would a group of ceramicists go for a round of drinks? Potters Bar What do you shout to a fictional flying ace who's just crash-landed in the sea? Biggleswade

This morning, Great Northern announced that northbound trains wouldn't be calling at Harringay, as the bridge requires urgent repairs (from https://twitter.com/GNRailUK/status/1617065745011064833): The current alert at...

Would it be fair to say that Farringdon was originally built to serve Smithfield Market? In which case, it's been a while since it handled trainloads of meat. (Insert obvious jokes here about passenger overcrowding or clubbers going to/from Fabric...)

BBC Radio London had a beautiful bit of timing by their live reporter on the first train out of Abbey Wood: (1hr 32mins into the 5am breakfast show: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c3yxlt)

Surely the purpose of that sign is to discourage people from queueing up at the validators in the passageway and causing congestion, rather than to do with whether tapping out there upsets the gateline? When Finsbury Park only had barriers on some of the mainline platforms, regular users would...

The direct link to the press release with those photos is https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/thousands-of-extra-seats-to-st-ives-following-west-cornwall-rail-upgrades - for the platform extensions, they say:

Haringey vs Harringay isn't a spelling confusion: Harringay is a local area (which gives its name to two stations) within the larger borough of Haringey (see e.g. https://harringayonline.com/page/harringay-vs-haringey-vs-harringaygreenlanes from a local community site, which somehow manages to...

IanVisits is suggesting that opening at the end of April is on the cards: ("A few weeks after Easter" and "the end of April" are roughly the same point this year.) If those timings do happen, I wonder if they'll do an "official grand opening" a month later to coincide with the jubilee events?

Is it worth mentioning that away from the railways, in small businesses it's increasing common to see card readers that don't have a magstripe reader at all, and so can only handle chip or contactless payments?

From what others have said about this location, no. A permissive path is a path that the landowner allows the public to use, but that's not a public right of way. If a path is used as a public right of way then it can become one, so putting up "permissive path" signs, or having a permissive path...

SCNF has the Pyrenean station of Andorre-L'Hospitalet, which is not only named after Andorra, it is the station that (via a bus link) serves Andorra

How about a route linking the residences & private islands of a certain group of billionaires to the Kennedy Space Centre, all funding to be sourced privately by them?