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Bishop's Stortford down platform must be a contender, large vertical and horizonal separation. A few years ago someone suffered life changing injuries falling in the gap.

Do you know which services? Would like to time my travel later this week to try them.

Just been through Tottenham Hale for the first time in a while. The new PIS announcements on platform 4 are a disaster waiting to happen when it starts getting busier - the fast Kings Lynn train (379 with Stansted Express written on the side) was being announced as the following Stansted service...

Have 3+2 airline style seats been used in the UK before? It just looks so impractical in the video above. On a commuter service people get up and down more frequently than a long distance, and if you are sitting by the window you might have to ask 2 people to move to get out. I imagine there...

Are GA paying for anything at the moment? I believe the government has taken on all the liabilities for the time being.

Does that mean that guards will be introduced on the West Anglia line when 745s start doing airport services? Or do Liverpool Street drivers only work the mainline?

The screens at Bishops Stortford have a little diagram at the bottom showing where first class is. Great, except for two things: First class is being removed on the WAML. The screens have no idea when trains are running in reverse formation. A decent number of 379s have ended up with first...

As I understand, it precludes cheap comfy seats!

Rail fire safety standards are now much more stringent than road vehicles and restrict the material choice (and push the cost up), so you could blame EN 45545-2 as the main culprit.

Greater Anglia tweeting the first train for testing is delivered: https://twitter.com/greaterangliapr/status/1217484265870561281?s=21

Good luck keeping normal punters out of first class on the WAML though given that there are no guards and GA announced it will be downgraded from 1 Jan 2020.

Railboard (iPhone only) is my app of choice, very simple and slick looking and much less cluttered than the official app, does live trains and planning.

How much of the Greater Anglia improvements depend on Crossrail freeing up platforms at Liverpool St? It looks like it might now be difficult to introduce a new timetable until May 2021.

25mm is about 1inch.

I don't know if it's just my perception, but amongst the Greater Anglia doom and gloom I've been finding the WAML exceptionally reliable for the last month or so. Last year there was a patch where I was getting delay repay at least once a week; haven't had to make a claim yet this year. Very...