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Interesting. The arch is on the northern side , so could be to do with Networkers. The bursts usually last between 1 and 3 seconds I'd say.

Great, thanks

Bit of an off-beat question this, but I'm trying to get a sound system set up in one of the Bermondsey arches (just a simple amp and mic thing is the order of the day) but the sound set up we currently have suffers from random bursts of electrostatic noise from the railway above. Would anyone be...

Since the thread is in the geographically correct area does anyone know what story is with the speed restrictions on the slows at the north end of Purley station? I wonder whether it's for similar reasons?

I have a question about strikes - may it should be a separate thread? Anyway, say all the ASLEF drivers go on strike, what happens to those drivers who are in a different union or who aren't unionised? Do they turn up to work but have nothing to do? I'm presuming the TOC wouldn't run a service...

...actually having looked at the standard off-peak pattern this would work in theory at least as far as Dorking - [gets crayons out] eg service from LBG arr. at Epsom at xx38, so dep xx40 and arr. Dorking by xx56. 6 min turnaround to get back to Epsom for the xx15 dep to LBG. Extending fast to...

Quite! Victoria to Sutton used to take 21mins on the fast when it ran via the Streatham North spur. I was once on a train that was accidentally mis-routed down the fasts at said junction and thereafter ran fast to Sutton via West Croydon. Although we had a clearish run we still arrived at Sutton...

Pertaining to the above - anyone know what the speed restriction on the slow lines just to the north of Purley station is about?

I predict they will also regain Sutton & Cheam and Carshalton & Wallington. If Tom Brake stood again he'd walk it.

If the voice recording is legit two things stand out. 1) If legit, it will certainly be time-stamped and contains the conversation at the TVM albeit in the background. 2) Even if the details in the conversation cannot be heard properly on the recording, in itself it proves that OP did not run...

Well this is interesting... Don't people do this sort of thing all the time with online grocery deliveries, meal deliveries and the like? I've never heard of Ocado pursuing anyone for having accounts on multiple email addresses. Personally I couldn't be bothered with the administration it would...

Given that he lived in East Grinstead maybe Dr. Beeching considered that might not have been practising what he preached if he'd kept all of his local routes open!

I've been caught twice and received penalties - one was before speed awareness course existed so I just got 3 points but the second time about 10 years later I opted to attend the course, which I found informative. 20 years ago I got caught by a police motorcyclist on the M20 just east of...

Longcross?

There used to be faster trains during the peaks after electrification but those dried up some time ago. Overall service level increased, well up until the ashes of COVID anyway. The whole route is now treated more like an outer suburban commuter zone, which it pretty much is.

Personally I fear the evening train home from work wondering who will end sitting next to me eating what. I cannot stand the noise of mastication, slurping and loudly rustling crisp packets and keep my earphones on hand just in case. Even worse are those who buy the greasiest food possible and...

I travelled the line a couple of times in my childhood, not because it was of any use to me - I had a Wimbledon train direct from Carshalton Beeches if I needed to go there - but because I liked trains and wanted to have a ride. Went on the 2EPBs when it was a 30-minute service which passed in...

Certainly post-1987 when I started getting the train a lot all the Wimbledon loop services off peak went from Victoria via Norbury, West Croydon, Sutton Wimbledon, Streatham, Peckham Rye, London Bridge and this went on for years. Morning peak services went via Mitcham Junction so if I wanted to...

Behold - the toilets! Regularly 'refurbished' yet within minutes manage to revert to being as grotty as they've ever been.

The Epsoms and TatCats currently conveniently share a diagram so it wouldn't be freeing up any more platforms than are currently free.