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    East-West Rail (EWR): Oxford-Bletchley construction progress

    It would presumably be somewhat more cost effective to stop a train that is going to run through the station anyway than it would be to run a train especially for the event though?
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    Trivia - stationless towns with the nearest station in a different county

    The town centre of Tadley in Hampshire is marginally closer to Bramley, Hants, but the most of the town is closer to Aldermaston and Midgham, both in Berkshire.
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    UK Rail Passenger Numbers Discussion

    Given that the latest census showed that almost everywhere in the country more than 10% of households don't have a car at all and thus fall into group 3 I'd be very surprised if that were the case. It's 23% nationally - excluding London (and that's all London, not just the inner parts, and...
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    UK stations where entire service is/was provided by HSTs?

    Wouldn't the TransWilts have disqualified Chippenham (after its reopening) as well?
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    Most consecutive stations visited on one line (or with just one omission)

    15 for me: Slough Burnham Taplow Maidenhead Twyford Reading Reading West Theale Aldermaston Midgham Thatcham Newbury Racecourse Newbury Kintbury Hungerford I want to do a walk from Pewsey to Bedwyn at some point which would (making cheeky use of the Frome avoider but not the Westbury one)...
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    Projects on time and budget

    Aylesbury Vale Parkway opened early, and I believe was within budget as well? May be wrong about the second part.
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    Trivia: Stations where passengers headed for a completely different destination end up on a regular basis

    Hayes and Harlington is often referred to as just Hayes. That must have led to a few people getting put on the wrong train before now.
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    Trivia: Stations that are located in a different parish to the parish that they are named after.

    Not always, though - Quainton Road is in Quainton parish
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    Will off peak traffic on the Cotswold Line build up?

    Commuter traffic may have dropped but that route gets a LOT of tourist traffic, mostly going between London, Windsor and Oxford.
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    Trivia: Stations that are located in a different parish to the parish that they are named after.

    Newbury Racecourse is in Greenham Midgham is in Woolhampton Aldermaston is in Padworth
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    Trivia: Stations (with 3+ platforms) where you have to leave the station to change platforms.

    Theale technically has 3 platforms, although one of them is hardly ever used. What makes it more notable for this thread, though, is that to get between any pair of the platforms you have to go up to Station Road and back down again. Not that you'd typically be changing trains there. Are there...
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    Estimates of station usage for 2020/21 published - Waterloo toppled after 17 years in top spot!

    Brundall Gardens managed to get through the year with a drop of just 1%. The only station on the network whose figures for the year are actually similar to those for the previous one.
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    Trivia: Common railway related fallacies

    That, if you miss your stop or get on the wrong train, the train is going to turn around and go back again for you. And the way to signal that this needs to be done is to kick the door a few times, or push the button to open the door while the train is moving.
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    [trivia] Longest walk between platforms at a 2 platform station

    Garth has a total of two platforms. There is a mere 49 mile walk between them. (sorry)
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    Stations with most trains for fewest passengers, and vice versa

    Bordesley is 1st. Which cheats because football trains carry most of the passengers but aren't included in the calling trains count. http://www.railwaydata.co.uk/stations/overview/?TLC=BBS
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    Weather Disruption caused by storm Ciara (February 9th, 10th and 11th)

    Has the speed restriction been lifted in places? RTT is showing trains doing PAD-RDG in 24 minutes, which is not possible at 50mph.
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    Weather Disruption caused by storm Ciara (February 9th, 10th and 11th)

    It's a HECK of a lot more likely than a horoscope. If they pulled the weather forecast out of a random number generator, then it would be no more accurate than a horoscope. But they don't, and as such the forecast is within a reasonable margin of error the vast majority of the time, whereas...
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    Trivia: Less obvious stations on a through route where passenger services terminate/start

    Staines, perhaps? Especially when you consider that the trains terminating there are coming from Reading, not from London. The quoted post is tongue-in-cheek, but there used to actually be one (or was it two?) in the morning out of Paddington that terminated at Twyford before running empty...
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    Trivia: Competing routes where the younger route is now the senior route.

    Yes No - Oxford via Reading was open before High Wycombe, and High Wycombe was a terminus for the first decade after it did open.
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    Trivia: Stations only served by intercity trains (no local services)

    Also served by the Cardiff-Exeter trains which are only intercity in the literal sense that they run between multiple cities

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