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I've done three speed awareness courses in the last four years, but (touch wood) my licence is currently clean since an incident on the A3 at Putney on what would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday back in 2014. The "middle" speed awareness course was a special one for smart motorways...

No, I fully understand that decisions have to be made. However, as someone who moved house on the basis of there imminently being 6x non-stops to Surbiton at regular ten minute intervals in the evening rush hours, I'm pretty narked that the THD connection to the non-stops remains 20 minutes...

I wouldn't be seen dead living in Wellington Court :lol:. There is always someone smoking weed when I walk past it anyway. There is already Residents Parking all around the Oakhill area; it came in in Saxon Close while I was living there, about 15 years ago istr. I do think last year's car...

This. Just from my own commute, SWR has removed the connection from Hampton Court for the fast SUR-WAT at 07:38, 08:08 and 08:38. The evening timetable was always rubbish, although the proposed 6x non-stops to Surbiton that were promised in the 2017 timetable consultation would have addressed...

It's Saxon Close, which was slightly under 40 years ago - the sale of the land to the developer was dated 1984 and the lease 1986. Anyway, I note the only point I recall making way back when is still valid now - the proposed MSCP will have 250 spaces, to replace a 443 space ground level car...

I lived in and owned a flat in sight of Surbiton station for twenty years - this consultation has been done before, I think when I was living there, which puts in the 2001 to 2011 time frame. From memory, that proposal most definitely was building on the car park - it was notably silent on what...

In the mid 1980s, I commuted to school from Estoril to Carcavelos on the Cascais line. The rolling stock was superannuated then, so I was staggered that it is still - refurbished certainly internally and doubtless with new traction equipment too etc - running today. They have made certain...

This is a bit rich really. There is an elderly(ish) gentleman with a freedom pass who often spends his afternoons travelling between Waterloo and somewhere that connects at Surbiton, who - quite literally - I do not think has changed or washed his clothes in well over a decade. You can always...

This is now open, as of 4pm yesterday, according to the chap from SWR at the top of the stairs when I ceremonially walked up at 4.29pm. They only have budget for it to be open 4-8pm weekdays, and he remarked that most trains were too short for it to be much use, as passengers won't walk back on...

I don't think Stagecoach are in the UK Rail franchise game any more; whether they would be interested in re-entering is a matter for debate. But the answer, for this completely dissatisfied passenger at least, has to be ABSWR - Anyone But SWR. Not a single one of their significant substantive...

To revert to the original question, I've had a GC for 16 years now, and was about to get Gold For Life in summer 2020 and then everything went wrong. I'll probably stagger over the line next summer and bizarrely then have no incentive to renew ever again and will start flying Virgin. The...

I think they used the rolling stock for testing the point work. When I turned up at Surbiton just after 5am today, a 5x444 - the booked formation for the 4.20 Guildford - turned up at platform 1, the driver changed ends and it departed back down to Woking. Same unit then passed Surbiton again...

Yes, from memory the 455 fasts were 06:01 from Woking to Waterloo, 07:53 from Guildford (via Cobham) and one if not both of the 08:42 and 08:48 (although I've a feeling the rolling stock changed a few times on one of those in recent years - I'm normally in the office well before then so rarely...

Which *should* be a relatively uncommon occurrence, and in any case passengers will arrive in a steady flow, rather than disgorging onto the platform. Whereas the situation TEW sets out happens regularly on the down. If there are delays to either fast or slow services, it is a daily occurrence...

The 10 and 12 car stop markers are at the same place definitely on platforms 1-3 at Surbiton with no differentiation between 450/444 and 455/456; I rarely get a 10 car train going into platform 4 and you pretty much only ever see 12 car trains in platform 4 during disruption, but I believe the...

My whole point is that the beginning of the end for the 744 came years before 9/11, and that it has already been for a long time a niche aircraft with only a handful operators that retain 747s in any great number. On 9/11, of the US airlines I think only pre-merger United and Northwest...

No US airline has been operating the B747 in passenger service since January and it is many years since its use was widespread - it was decades before the B77W came along in 2004 that smaller aircraft with the range of the B744 were available. Airlines were flying Europe to West Coast with the...

I must have been unlucky then, as half an hour later they absolutely weren't telling people that the 19:02, 19:03, and 19:20 weren't stopping at Surbiton, until five minutes before departure after you'd been stood on the thing for five minutes. By which time, the 19:06 Hampton Court had gone...

It would have been the 16:42 WAT-BAS that was a 5 car 444, first stop Surbiton. Horrendous train to catch - as is/was the 16:25 to Alton. Is the 16:42 now a 450? (I assume 8 car at least?)

I must be the only one then who thinks this is a potty idea that has disaster written all over it - rather like Norwegian starting airline operations in Argentina. It's 7000 miles away, they still don't like us very much - there's plenty of graffiti around BsAs about the Malvinas even now - the...