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Diesel on the diversion, all electric was tried from Hitchin Junction to Shepreth Branch Junction, but the number of additional units caused caused a lot of issues Change over probably took place at Stevenage to avoid blocking platforms at Hitchin (esp heading away from London)

365s with Scotrail, 350s with Southern... Cant really count Southerns 170s/375s, can I?

Same parent company, yes but maintaince wise, it could be a bit of a struggle - the TL depots have to do a fine balancing act to make sure that theyre not over stocked on some occasions - though with the 455s gone, I wonder how much space is now available at Selhurst to do heavy maintence on...

Hampden Park - Eastbourne - Hampden Park :lol:

City Thameslink is a bit of a mess, one of the entrances is the wrong way round so north is actually South facing

Im not entirely familiar with the planned platform layout at OOC or with the track layout where Crossrail meets the Great Western but i'd think that when services are running through from the core section onto the GWML (Westbound), they'd want to avoid terminating a long train like that in a 2...

303/304 at Three Bridges

The tracking software we have at work shows 804, 812, 819 and 836 at Stewarts Lane. Not long to go

There’s some Connex South Central era advertisement on a bridge near Penge West - though slightly obscured by graffiti.

I think there are a few on the Thameslink routes into Kent like Bat & Ball on the Sevenoaks and Higham on the Rainhams, both managed by Southeastern. Streatham possibly also falls into this with it being managed by Southern but Thameslink (under normal running) have more services.

Getting them to pull the 701s now?

How about Loughborough Junction?

I'm only familiar with the Cubic E1/E2 gates used around the Southern network (similar machines are used by other TOCs and TfL) Some older gates have a mechanism that holds the last 5 (or so) tickets before they go into the bin within the gate which makes ticket retrieval easy. However many of...

The up trains on 1 only appears to be in the off peak periods. In the morning it’s all on 3 and between 1700-2030 in the evening. But tbh, the 2T in the old non-Covid timetable didn’t really run at them times through ECR and started at Norwood

Could it be like how Southern was originally called South Central as a shadow franchise when Govia originally took over from Connex?

By lack of DOO system, do you mean incompatibility of the DOO systems on both units? All 377s have body side mounted cameras like the later built Electrostar models (376s excepted)

For the moment, yes. But I guess the experience gained from the installation on the HEX units will help with the GTR units when the time comes.

There was a unit that had a mishap not long back, perhaps it could be that one?

Despite the lack of padding in the seats, I had witnessed a person throw his bag on one of the facing seats on a 700. I’m just thankful to have had a mask with me that day!

I think it goes empties to Herne Hill turnback in the meantime