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Ah yes, I hadn't considered Woking Junction. I believe that there was an abandoned plan to grade separate this. Was the Woking bay the "consolation prize"?

Amazon remains fine in my area. It depends a lot on the quality of your local delivery person. My heart sinks when anyone sends anything via Evri though, it means I'm in for a lot of back and forth to ever see my package. Going back to Currys, I ordered some printer ink on eBay recently, and...

Up until the late 90s there were half hourly Waterloo to Guildford via Woking stoppers using class 455s. With the construction of the up facing bay at Woking, these were cut back to become Waterloo to Woking stoppers. What was the thinking behind this? It was quite an infrastructure investment...

At work (non railway) I've found that "be kind" is used to deflect from picking up someone, quite diplomatically, who isn't doing their job properly or being told something they don't want to hear. I really hate it. It's the workplace, not a kindergarten.

I know this has been discussed to Kingdom come, but why are we subjected to all this noise, when in France, the only station announcements are train destination and calling points. Is the French railway network any less safe as a result? I believe not.

The problem is now that everything has to be so wordy for some reason. The 1970s post was concise and to the point. If they must have announcements, how about "if you abuse staff we always prosecute". Done.

Exactly. I will qualify this by echoing that abuse of any staff anywhere is unacceptable, but respect has to be earned in a public facing role. Respect the customer, an with the exception of obvious idiots, you will be respected back.

If driver training is restarting in a couple of weeks, how long will it take, realistically, to have enough drivers signing 701s to be able to introduce further diagrams?

Thanks. I wonder why that one is an outlier. Is it still Porterbrook owned?

Are there any still at Long Marston?

Out of interest, what dictates what order things are scrapped in? I'd wrongly assumed that they'd empty Wembley of 321s before starting on the Warrington ones.

Given the critical shortage of stock on SWR, what's holding up getting the rest of the /4s into service?

I'd completely forgotten that First Great Western Link (which was the successor to Thames Trains, so a distinctly separate TOC to FGW) ran some of the 180s for a while. Whether FGW crew operated them or whether it was FGWL I'm not sure. It was all a bit of a holding pattern anyway prior to the...

I always forget the brief time that SWT had class 170s.

I'd hope that the Rosco hold on to these 458/5s for a bit, rather than a fast track to the scrap man. With the continuing delays to the 701s, at some point someone surely will crack and authorise the C6(?) for these and get them back on lease to SWR.

Isn't "re re re re relaunch" the noise made by a compressor on a class 455? Moderator note: Just a gentle reminder that this thread is for progress updates only; any posts of a speculative nature should be posted in the Speculative Discussion area. Please see the following thread...

Network SouthEastern anyone?

This could be relieved a little by getting the remaining 458/4s in service. What's the issue holding that up?

Forgive the daft question, but if training has stopped, who are these training runs training?

London to Guildford via Woking, Cobham or Epsom. London to Southampton via Gatwick or Basingstoke.