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I'm not sure if this should live here or elsewhere. The thread on stop orders made me wonder about a few scenarios, and I didn't want to clog up that thread on a massive detour. I'm curious about these, and wonder if my understanding of the situations are close to accurate We have 4...

Hi all I've had to alter my travel plans for the weekend and get the train to London. I was going to be spending Saturday in East Croydon, which I usually do by driving to Merton Park and getting the tram. I was then tasked with some extra work the next day, so work were going to put me up...

https://news.sky.com/story/rail-workers-suspended-after-man-cave-found-under-railway-12082010 When you hear about secrets on the tube, you never hear about secret man caves!

Hi I had a look at NRE earlier on my mobile for a trip I am making at the weekend: 17/08, Haslemere to London Waterloo 20/08, London Waterloo to Haslemere 2 adults with Network Railcard I was given a ticket cost of £38-ish, or with travelcard for £48-ish I just did the same search and got a...

Another thread on here made me think again about a job I had a while ago, but from a logistical point of view. There was a 4 track section of third rail. A train was stopped beyond a station following an incident on one of the Down lines (left most), there was 1/4-1/2 a mile between the end of...

I was meant to be on the 0804 from Haslemere, but due to traffic I was late getting there. There were two trains to Waterloo after that, 0832 and 0839. These were both delayed, and the 32 left first. The guard informed us we were 21L so could get delay repay. This was meant to be non stop...

I've been moving around London a bit on contact less, but need to end up going from Waterloo to Haslemere. Will I need to get a single from Waterloo or is there some option for tapping in and transferring to a Zone 6 boundary ticket? Or would that be more expensive? Ultimately, what's my best...

I've got another annoying question for you, once again seeming to involve routes via Guildford. I've got to go to Bourne End on Thursday from Havant, and a colleague is coming from Cosham. I have put the journeys in to NRE, and there are routes from Havant (0540) -> Guildford (0642) -> Reading...

I have had to go to Hastings today for work and my ticket is valid "via Polegate or Edenbridge". I get that that is to stop me going via London (Why not via Not London?) I'm trying to work out how a route back via Edenbridge would work. I was meant to be at a meeting in Haslemere this evening...

Seeing in a thread about a split ticket and trains not being booked to stop at some stations made me wonder. If you have a ticket from A-C and C-D and get on the train which is booked to call at B, but for whatever reason is not running fast from B to D and will not call at C, is your ticket...

Just saw this http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/heroic-paramedic-shielded-injured-man-11096287 I'm curious as to what the sequence of events here was, allowing room for the media's knowledge of how trains work (ie "swerving") As I'm reading it, the sequence seems to be Man...

Saw this news story shared on social media. Terrifying footage shows car smashing into tram and derailing it in Croydon town centre in Wellesley Road http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/14260515.Terrifying_footage_shows_car_smashing_into_tram_and_derailing_it_in_Croydon_town_centre/...

Last night I went to Nutbourne armed with a camera and tripod. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/mkb9xds0lmach8o/DSC_0575.JPG?dl=0 There was a false start on that one: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/iepxxpzrxz4p7gc/DSC_0574.JPG?dl=0 I wasn't expecting it through that soon after the...

In the past, on a fair few occasions and on a couple of TOCs, I have got on to a late train after work to return home whilst still in ambulance uniform I have the either searched for the guard, or boarded at their door, and asked to buy a single back home. This is sometimes met with a "Nah...

Hopefully a fairly straight forward set of questions: If I get a travelcard with a "Southern only" restriction on it, would the restriction only apply to the journey outside of the travelcard zones? ie: Havant to Victoria would be correct and valid. Havant to Waterloo via Guildford would...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cktlY8JfvQ _cktlY8JfvQ Could this be the cheapest tram ever made? (Yes, I realise that doing this is neither safe, smart nor practical as a reliable method of transportation)

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/calls-for-an-express-train-service-from-portsmouth-to-london-1-5933928 The fasts do more stops in Hampshire than they do in the London suburbs. Is Penny wanting them to go fast from Fratton? Would pathing allow for that? If only Havant still had the...

From the drivers bags thread (I hope this is the right place to ask the question) http://footplateequipment.co.uk/media/etheme/buyshop/buyshopflex/dscf0014.jpg That picture on their front page looks wrong to my untrained eye. Isn't that an Operating Incident of some description? (If it...

All of the discussions of immigration in various threads makes we wander what would happen in this hypothetical scenario. I don't know how Eurostar actually works, so this has some assumptions: You leave Paris. You enter the tunnel You come out in Kent You travel through green and...

I am looking at getting a job in London, which would involve shift work. I see that I can get an annual travelcard season ticket for just over £5,000, which works out cheaper per day than driving and parking. AIUI, The season ticket would cover me for a journey from Havant to London...