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I don’t disagree. That said the flexibility has been missed occasionally, most notably if a train sits down at South Croydon. It also means nothing can terminate at South Croydon something that is an engineering work option. 1713249761 Thanks.

As mentioned above there is a problem which is why the connections are totally rusty. 1713209258 Yes, everything heading to Purley is routed via platform 4. 1713209294 Cannot at the moment - the rails are rusty.

South Croydon Junction is where the five tracks heading south from East Croydon split into two tracks to East Grinstead and four tracks to Purley. From east to west there’s the down slow, the slow reversible, the up slow and two fast line tracks which aren’t part of this discussion. There’s a...

But what are they doing? Looks like a lot of work by East Croydon station but there’s also a worksite at Lloyd Park.

As for Moorgate and other busy two platform termini the irony is that additional platforms don’t always provide additional capacity. Stratford (Jubilee) in an example. The biggest throughput is with two platforms (plus stepping up). Having a third decreases capacity and thus the third one is...

Exactly. A different example would be tapping in at East Croydon and tapping out at West Hampstead on a service going from Brighton to Bedford. One point not mentioned yet is the sheer convenience of not having to buy a physical or even e-ticket. Turn up 30 seconds before the train, tap in and...

I believe this right. Balham Jct would have been even harder to work than it is now if paired by direction and getting trains over at Victoria would also have needed work.

I think that may be 50% of the male population not the population…

Victoria still gets semi-regular excursions, though not sure if the Orient Express still runs. I hear the throbbing of a class 67 every once in a while when walking through.

So do I. The Liverpool/Manchester and Birmingham ones as well.

i didn’t read it as a reference to London, given that the topic being discussed was Birmingham. If if it was this was a bit of a non-sequitur in a thread that was focussed on Birmingham at the time.

Not sure about websites - the various atlas publications will do it on paper.

Some 455s might have managed Victoria (both sides) Charing Cross, Holborn Viaduct and London Bridge (terminal).

Hardly an individual settlement but there a few stops on the London (ex Croydon) Tramlink which are a fair way from a bus. Lloyd Park is certainly one, I think Harrington Road and Arena might be others.

Full eight tracking Clapham Jct to Waterloo. Even now there’s a 7 track section near Queenstown Road.

Significantly late and over budget in late 1970s Switzerland.

Don’t forget different companies were in the habit of giving their station in a town or area the same name. South Eastern Railway on the extension from London Bridge to Charing Cross were bitter rivals of the London Chatham and Dover (what we now know as Blackfriars was on the latter company‘s...

Cross platform interchange from the Overground to Southern (on past Gypsy Hill and so on) is more important than cross platform interchange the other way, because trains coming from Gypsy Hill will have a same platform interchange, and a more frequent one at that, between Sydenham and New Cross...

Broad Street was, I think the third busiest station in London in 1900. The traffic collapsed significantly with electric trams running to Dalston Jct, Highbury & Islington and Hackney. Similarly the South London Line lost huge amounts of traffic with the trams running more frequently and often...

What were you going to be doing for the £6 fee?