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There's a very rusty semaphore signal outside one of the Newhaven stations. Not sure on the age.

This is peak modern railway thinking. Much easier to make the railway less appealing to passengers than actually invest and run a decent service...

Some of the most prolific artists are train buffs, or at least very familiar with the network and particularly the security arrangements.

Agreed. The graffiti is noticeably worse on the Bakerloo, Central and Picadilly lines that don't have CCTV, compared to newer stock with CCTV. On Thameslink class 700s, it's also often noticeable that the toilets are really badly tagged, whereas the rest of the train (with CCTV) is in a much...

That might explain it then. Much harder to catch the culprits unless they are caught in the act.

Do Picadilly line carriages have CCTV? I notice at the moment it mostly targets lines without train CCTV. Pretty brazen if they're moving up to other lines

I think this is also probably the most likely permanent option, that it'll be kept in reserve for HERT. Otherwise it might just be left as is, or turned into a footpath/cycle path like the Worth Way.

We already have different station names within the same complex, such as at Bank-Monument, Liverpool Street & Moorgate, Farringdon & Barbican. Or even worse, different stations not in the same complex but with the same name! West Hampstead (jubilee vs mildmay), Edgware Road (Bakerloo vs...

I wonder how money the "Not in use" light on all the PERTIS machines has cost the railway in electricity over the ~35 years they've been around...

You can, I can't imagine they sell many nowadays though with the ubiquity of contactless payments. I think it's also slightly more expensive than contactless, to encourage people to use Oyster or contactless. Of course, plenty of people have orange National Rail tickets that include TfL...

I reckon it might make more sense to just rename them as both of their stations, like how we already have King's Cross St Pancras. Perhaps we should have "Moor gate-Liverpool Street" and "Barbican-Farringdon". Then again, if you're going to be renaming one station, I could spawn an entire...

If there were fatalities, would there have been a coroners report at the local authority/court records?

Shame there's no good way to make Cross Country work on the Tonbridge-Redhill-Guildford-Reading lines, opening up Kent to other routes while avoiding London. Especially if there was more interchange onto that line from intersecting routes, most of which seem to travel under or over without a...

Is Waterloo East managed by NR like Waterloo is, or is maintained by a TOC (presumably Southeastern?)

East Grinstead used to have High Level and Low Level, until the High Level station was closed after Beeching and the Low Level became just East Grinstead.