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  1. Sad Sprinter

    The optimum GB network

    I'd probably: Alter the WCML to run via the GWR/GCR joint line Run the Midland up via the existing West Coast towards Northampton before continuing northwards to Leeds/Bradford Get rid of the ECML and build a new London - Cambridge - Lincoln - Goole - York trunk line I'd probably run wide...
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    New Idea for Sutton Loop Services

    Yes I've always wondered about sending the trains via CR2 as well.
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    The Wandsworth Common footpath

    Yes, I just about remember in the late 90s you'd see those trundle past every now and then.
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    Increase of Virgin Media & Openreach metal street boxes

    And for us air raid siren enthusiasts (yes such a thing does exist) green boxes on the street could be old siren control cabinets
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    South Wales Electrified Infrastructure "Pretty Ugly" - Local Residents Say.

    The Valley Lines electrification equipment does look a lot bulkier than OLE done in the 90s for some reason. North London Line OLE for examples looks a lot more elegant.
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    The Wandsworth Common footpath

    As a child I remember gripping onto the railings with my Mum or Dad next to the footpath that ran alongside the up fast line through Wandsworth Common. I used to love it there and remember seeing all kinds of stock from Thumpers to Swallow livered class 47s to those car transporter trains that...
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    Worst thing that's happened to you on the railway (that you're willing to share)?

    I had to write a similar story when I started year 4 along the lines of “seeing a GNER Eurostar go through Hampstead Heath”. My worst thing I suppose was seeing the aftermath of someone being hit by the Heathrow Express back in 2009. There was also the 2016 Wandsworth Common incident where a...
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    Increase of Virgin Media & Openreach metal street boxes

    They started appearing around South West London about 10 years ago. But were BT Openreach ones.
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    Paddington Elizabeth line escalator luggage shaming camera

    Just discovered this thread, so that’s why Crossrail drivers have started pleading and begging you to use the lifts if you have luggage over the tannoy.
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    News report: At King's Cross, train details will be deleted from departure boards three minutes before they leave.

    This situation reminds me of the complaint I had a few years ago of footbridge windows being frosted out so people cannot see the fact their train is near or at the station… The problem with that, and the topic of this thread, is that people are going to learn you can’t see the train, so will...
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    Electrostar buffet provision

    Way back in 2002 (I think) I remember waiting for a train at Gatwick Airport back to London with my parents when a then new class 377 rake pulled in on the opposite platform. I remember my Mum pointing out the "buffet car" to me on the train which, obviously, was a mistake on her part as no such...
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    Livery under Great British Railways

    But the people that took that flag away from you are only going to feel more emboldened in their decision to do so following your particular worldview.
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    SNCF €200 fine for phone call on speaker: could do with something of that sort in the UK

    I have never been on Merseyrail, but I would like these bylaws to be more enforced even if that means using “rentathugs” if they’re going to be the only type of staff able to reinforce a masked young man to stop playing music out of his phone on the 17:33 to West Croydon. A lone guard certainly...
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    Designer sought for St Pancras International growth plans

    Yes same, the last two times actually. It’s quite a stressful place down there. Especially when you have a Paris and a Brussels train waiting.
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    Planned 387 and 377 cascades to Southern and Southeastern in 2025

    I mean the new peak stopping trains from Sutton to London Bridge via Forest Hill
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    Trivia: Ideas and concepts that didn't work out

    It was on Voyagers when they were first introduced. I remember seeing them on the Brighton trains going through South London
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    Planned 387 and 377 cascades to Southern and Southeastern in 2025

    Whether or not Southern needs more stock, I can’t say, but South London is getting a terrible deal. 2tph on routes out of Victoria and London Bridge reign supreme in many areas. It’s not 1985 anymore. It should all be part of the Overground, especially for London Bridge trains on the Sydenham...
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    Is this station possible?

    Thanks for this. Atfter some thinking, I've come to the following conclusion that the only way to make such a station work would be to: 1. "Demolish" Holborn Viaduct and Ludgate Hill stations, and build a new large station on a viaduct where Ludgate Hill station extending southwards towards...
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    Trivia: Ideas and concepts that didn't work out

    Not these days. I've come to think that, if we have to have Victoria to Brighton trains locked the behind the Gatwick Express, perhaps its time to retire that brand and replace it with something like, "Southern Express" as an evolution to the Southern Belle. At least then it would have two...
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    Trivia: Ideas and concepts that didn't work out

    Is that so? That might make sense because I do remember using Electrostars heading to Brighton on Clapham to Croydon hops and remember there being a largely 2+3 formations on those trains. When I started school in the mid-2000s, 319s were allocated to the Horsham to Victoria slow services and I...

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