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Currently a Southern train from the High Level route via Battersea Park can access platforms 7 and 8 at Victoria. 8 is rare but not unknown in disruption; 7 is very rare. Otherwise access from the Clapham Jct direction requires use of the Stewart’s Lane low level lines. South Eastern trains...

I remember catching a Saturday service from either platform 3 or 4 at Clapham Jct which had come from Reading and headed to the Kent Coast. I got off at Ashford (Kent). It will have gone through Ashford (Middlesex - now Surrey); don’t know if it stopped there. Mid-late 80s Summer Saturdays.

Though historically major termini had an arrival and a departure side. So a station could have a platform only used for arrivals - trains went out ECS and one used for departures - train arrived ECS. The layouts at Paddington and Euston in particular facilitated this. At Euston there was an up...

There was a much smaller population in the Mid-Sussex area then. The long distance commuters of the south lived on the coast in the 1950s. Only now, with the south coast being less God’s Waiting Room are these places attracting the young; often those priced out of London and then Brighton. There...

Because more people live in Mid-Sussex.

Quite. Getting people annoyed at having to buy a ticket is much less bad than fining them (I know it not a fine) and having them annoyed at both them not being able to use contactless and also getting a penalty fare.

It’s very common for those whose travel is only in London to get caught out in trips outside. The inconsistencies are legion. Reigate- no. Gatwick Airport (further from London) yes. And the sheer convenience of using contactless means that those living in London forget that travelling outside...

If we’re allowing Alexandra Palace can we allow Crystal Palace? The Palace itself was privately owned once it move to the top of Sydenham Hill.

I’ve left Balham up slow in the down direction on the authority of a shunt signal. More unusually this meant that the driver did not have a signal saying whether the route at the next junction was set for Streatham Hill or Streatham Common. Driver said his instructions were to visually check the...

But not, as I quoted above, what the FAQs say to do in this circumstance. https://www.ircas.co.uk/Home/Faqs When the FAQs state that something should be returned to the address on the envelope and there isn't one...

And via Kensington Olympia puts one on the slow side of the Brighton Main Line (note the Engineer's Line Reference is VTB not BML) at Clapham Junction requiring northbound trains to cross the down fast at Balham and the down slow at Clapham Junction and southbound ones to merely cross the up...

We've received a letter from IRCAS on behalf of TfL properly addressed to our address but in the name of a person who does not live here and who we don't know. While there is an address to which appeals should be sent (but we're not appealing because the penalty fare notice isn't in our name)...

Happens at Purley Oaks where people bail to move back and get left behind. Listened to a bloke trying to explain to another bloke that all they needed to do was get off at Purley and walk back. Somehow bloke 2 thought the trains would not let anyone off at Purley and bloke 1 couldn’t convince...

My grandfather was a substantive captain but had been a Town Major in Berlin as part of the occupying British forces. He had a letter from the War Office explicitly allowing him to use Major in civilian life, which he did.

Serious grade separation needed between Redhill and Gatwick. I rather fancy (and this is way into Crayonista territory) a light rail line serving Gatwick but going on to Crawley with street running in E Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells.

It’s the flat junction where the connection to the Hayes line diverges and is also a slow to fast connection on the Lewisham avoiding lines. It’s part of the wider Lewisham complex, hence being included in the original post without extra geographical clarification.

No one’s mentioned Lewisham and Park’s Bridge Junction yet. Stunningly expensive.

Might it be Tadworth or Tattenham Corner for Southern?

Is it a terminal station. I know trains terminate, but do they terminate on a through line?

Victoria platform 12, Stewart’s Lane, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, Leigham Spur, Balham, Victoria platform 12. Or London Bridge New Cross Gate, Sydenham, West Norwood, Tulse Hill London Bridge.