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    If a train is booked to stop, must it, in fact, physically do so?

    Would it count as a fail to call if the train stopped but the doors were not released? Happened to me (and about 50 others) one morning at Farringdon. Driver apologised as we approached St Pancras and said something along the lines of 'don't know what happened there'.
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    Farringdon season ticket advice

    Ah thanks for giving it some more thought - sounds incredibly complicated! As it happens I have since realised there is a second direct blackfriars to Maidstone service at 1904. I would either need a lift or to wait 13 mins for a connection for East Malling as it is fast West Malling to...
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    Farringdon season ticket advice

    When I lived with my parents 8 years ago (this is where I am going back to) I walked through Smithfield and then up St John Street. I would always get the 4 or 56 back in the evening though and walk along from near St Pauls station. With the extra change at Blackfriars now I don't fancy doing...
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    Farringdon season ticket advice

    Thanks so much for your response. All very useful info! Didn't realise the difference was that small. Worth it for the weekend shopping/pub trips to maidstone! How sure are you about this? I guess I should ask at SE ticket office? Having since looked it up I would have thought that that...
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    Farringdon season ticket advice

    Hi. This is quite a long post, so thanks in advance to anyone who reads it. Any advice would be gratefully received. I am moving to Kent - to a place half way between East Malling (Maidstone East Line) and Aylesford (Medway Valley line). I work just off City Road near Angel in London. About...
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    Great Western Electrification Progress

    Knew it was the junction for Melksham but couldn't remember what it was called. Glad to hear there is hope for the rest of it being done in CP6.
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    Great Western Electrification Progress

    The latest is that electrification will go to cardiff via bristol parkway but on the route between swindon and temple meads will only get to just south of chippenham.. Presumably you have not been to overwhelmed with information to notice that this project is not going particularly well?!
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    Linguistic question - Welsh announcements

    Having spent a few hours at Cardiff Central over years i have only noticed any mutation of the place names when the final destination is named at the end of the list of calling points e.g. 'Heol Dingle a Benarth'. Grangetown is always grangetown. Final destinations without welsh names are rare...
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    London to Ljubijana

    Agreed. I did Salzburg to Ljubljana a few years back. Views were amazing.
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    Trivia Stations with platforms 'missing' in sequence

    Bristol Parkway has p2-4. 1 is supposed to be coming some time in the future. I believe they swapped the numbering when platform 4 opened so they didn't have to call it platform 0
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    Tonbridge to Redhill - Southern or SouthEastern?

    In the mid nineties the off peak service ran maidstone west to three bridges. I remember having one of the earliest ATOC style 'London and the South East' maps which had the route labelled separately to southeastern and south central as 'maidstone to gatwick line'. After a few years they started...
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    Croydon Tram Crash

    Correct me if I'm wrong but don't most speed limit changes on heavy rail have a warning sign several hundred yards before the start of the new, lower limit, along with an AWS magnet? (apologies for dodgy terminology)
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    Gatwick Express validity on "Not Valid on HS1" ticket

    At least they should choose between simple fares and training staff properly in the complexity they have created. In the same way if they want penalty fares there should be higher standards for ticket purchasing facilities.. if you don't want too keep the machines working/offices open then no...
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    New Bridges on Railways never used

    In between Snodland and Halling, adjacent to the medway valley line, at the St Peter's Bridge roundabout on the A228. There are tracks but only under the roundabout (not connected to anything at either end). As well as putting in the unecesary railway section, the roundabout itself was...
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    Can anyone identify this mystery object?

    Thanks for your pointers. I thought maybe a token but then it is not solid. In the second picture you can see a dark line - that is empty space, which i think used to be a bit bigger before it got squished by something. Maybe token made of two materials of which one has wasted away. --- old post...
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    Can anyone identify this mystery object?

    About the size of £1 coin. Or a bit bigger. That's the side of my wallet it's resting up against in the second photo.
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    Can anyone identify this mystery object?

    Hi It may not be that much of a mystery.. i haven't googled yet but wanted to share a few piccies as quite excited by my accidental find Found where the sidings used to be at Dungeness in kent
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    Great Western Electrification Progress

    You meant the class 365s. That was a grammar pedant post :p
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    Omitting station calls, to recover service

    Happens regularly on GTR of course e.g. Sevenoaks services fast from Blackfriars to Bromley South LBG to VIC fast new cross gate to crystal palace Sometimes I wish they would skip a couple of stops to avoid overcrowding. E.g. if half hourly service running 28 min late, next service...
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    The "Name the Station" game

    Dartford

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