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    Belmont Line to be doubled - funding available

    Worth bearing in mind also is that the new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (part of Epsom and St Helier Trust) is due to be built on the site in the next 10 years also, so it will become a lot lot busier.
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    Saw it, said it, sorted?

    Context is everything.
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    Saw it, said it, sorted?

    As I'm sure you're aware (and are simply milking for the sake of pedantry) "oh" is quite commonly substituted in for zero when announcing phone numbers. In fact, in this context the Oh is actually derived as a shortening of Zero, rather than from the letter.
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    Above ground tube maps

    If you just look on google maps and toggle the Public Transport layer on (bottom left of screen), it'll give you a fairly decent idea also.
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    The Construction of the Elizabeth Line being a "national joke"

    For those dying to be let in on the mystery, Jago is Harry Beck in this Jay Foreman vid:
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    Have railways became too expensive to build/improve?

    I've no particular horse in this race, but presumably HSTed is referring to situations of indirect impact - i.e. the risk of deaths from continued air pollution from trucks for the additional years a rail transport project isn't completed etc etc. Obviously, v hard to quantify! + I don't think...
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    TfL contactless - enter/exit same station

    Good to know for future! ty!
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    EMR Class 360's

    I suppose you want caviar and champagne too?!
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    TfL contactless - enter/exit same station

    Yeah, I see what you mean. I suppose I wasn't considering it as a deterrent, and was instead thinking of it being a means to stop a particular behaviour entirely... mybad!
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    TfL contactless - enter/exit same station

    I don't see how a maximum fare fixes that tho? If it gets tapped twice, you're back "out" of the station, so the journey would be invalid anyway?
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    Teenagers enter the London Overground train cab and play with the driver's switches

    For anyone interested - it's an absolutely wild story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum
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    TfL contactless - enter/exit same station

    I think we may have established whether that remains the case or not then!! Tbh I'm not overly fussed about reclaiming the additional £1.90 from them; I was just a bit confused as to why I'd been charged anything at all. Admittedly, I didn't time the 2 minutes other than from keeping an eye...
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    TfL contactless - enter/exit same station

    I'm afraid I must disagree! Last week I touched in on a standalone reader at Hackney Wick with my contactless bank card (well, phone) (the barriers were open and not functioning); seeing that the next train to stratford was not due for another 25 minutes due to a few cancellations, my partner...

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