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    Trivia: Stations close to each other that you can’t travel to/from easily

    Clapton to Tottenham Hale Ipswich to Mistley (one train a day, northbound only)
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    (TRIVIA) Most indirect through train

    Starcross to Exmouth? Nearly 20 miles by rail, less than 2 by ferry
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    Most faded grandeur (trivia)

    Church Fenton, Lowestoft and Clifton Down all spring to mind
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    Trivia: Less obvious stations on a through route where passenger services terminate/start

    The 1558 Ingatestone - Colchester is the only train to start/terminate at Ingatestone as far as I know.
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    Trivia: Nearby stations

    You can almost see Clifton Down from Redland
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    Train felt like it was derailing

    The first time I went from London to Bristol on an 800 I nearly managed to convince myself it was going to derail as the ride was so much rougher than an HST - especially between Paddington and Reading. The last couple of times it's been similar though, so I suppose that must be normal
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    TRIVIA: Stations where passengers still have to cross via a level crossing or barrow crossing

    Sea Mills Lelant
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    Rail-related spoofs

    Someone made a hoax website for a fictional metro in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) - I think it's been taken down now. They're actually going to build a metro there now though apparently, so maybe it wasn't a very good spoof after all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaanbaatar_Metro
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    Settlement Association

    Like Rochester, Elgin used to be a city but has had its city status revoked.
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    Which is your favourite railway line in the UK and why?

    The GWML is very interesting & varied, especially the part between Reading & Swindon. There's something quite nice about a long journey when you can see the countryside changing gradually as you move between different areas. It gives you a real sense of having travelled, that you don't really...
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    Your bits of totally useless geographical trivia please...

    I don't know if this counts as geography as such, but parts of Suffolk and Essex get less rainfall than Jerusalem, Beirut or Mexico City.
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    Oldest stock you've travelled in on the network.

    Mine would be the Island Line 1938 stock, by quite a long way. Apart from that, I've been on Class 313s a few times, and I'm pretty sure I travelled on a Class 312 on the Harwich branch just before they were withdrawn. I have a faint memory of using slam-door trains on SWT, again in their last...
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