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A certain London Mayoral candidate promised once that "No Londoner will pay a penny more for transport." That went well.

At least Margaret Thatcher represented a London constituency. None of the Overground lines go to Finchley, so probably not relevant for this discussion. There is an argument for the High Barnet branch of a separated Northern line to be named after her, though.

I suspect that's exactly what the Conservatives are planning on. Labour is in a lose-lose situation here, assuming it is in power after the next election: If it repeals the MSL Act, it's "beholden to the unelected unions". If it gives in to the demands of the unions in the various industrial...

Possibly naïve question: why does this happen on Thameslink and not on the Northern City Line? In 10 years of commuting regularly on the latter, I've only ever once seen a problem. That was a (old and clapped out) 313 which the driver couldn't get the pan down at Drayton Park, so had to go out...

They aren't in just any city. They're in the City. Definite article. I'm sure that's important.

It would be very risky for them to do otherwise. Imagine the headlines in the press next time there was a strike: "Little Jonny can't go to school today..." "Granny was left waiting for an ambulance for 18 hours..." "The railway grinds to a halt..." "... because Labour abolished the law...

Last time I flew from Stansted I drove there. I was able to get from parking to my departure gate in 14 minutes (security was being phenomenally efficient!) This is not the sort of action from railway companies that might encourage me to consider using them as an alternative next time I fly.

Walthamstow Central / Queens Road is an interesting challenge if you don't want to walk it.

I suspect the number of passengers not affected by delays was also at a record-breaking low!

Has anyone mentioned Blair Atholl yet?

They were still there (along with a lot of other, rather faded, NSE signage and decor) until about 2019. Then the Moorgate line got a bit of renovation to go with the 717s and the stations stopped looking like the 1980s.

I think the best I can do is 15, being Moorgate - Gordon Hill and everything in between. If you count the Tube, the entire Victoria line (16) and most of the Piccadilly, though I'm struggling to work out exactly what the longest 'continuous' list is. I might be able to manage more than 15 on...

I can't see much sympathy being generated here. Most of the capital has spent the last two years learning how to function working from home and will do exactly that on 1/3 March. Those that can't are going to be inconvenienced, but they're mainly key workers and targeting them is a bit of a PR...

Finsbury Park platforms 3 & 6. Mainly because they face the same roads as 2 & 7 respectively, and those platforms are the ones usually in use.

Railplan 2020's messaging about 'more destinations' was a bad idea, given that in a lot of situations it actually meant reductions in the services between stations passengers actually wanted to travel between. And that's before you get to the catastrophe of actually implementing it!

Or possibly they are objective comments from passengers/customers/guests who are simply giving their opinions on the service as delivered. Most of such people neither know, nor care, what loco is on the front of the train, they just want to get to their destination on time and in comfort...

Probably just that 'leaves on the line' is to go-to example of The Railway coming up with explanations for things going wrong, using a term that (to the layman) is utterly meaningless in actually explaining the cause of the problem.

Fairly easily. 1. Let the strike go ahead, but dangle a few carrots for those willing to work. 2. A few employees decide the carrots are worth it, and cross the picket lines. 3. (As per comments earlier on) those employees are likely to get bullied by other employees. 4. Catch some of the...

The Northern City line platforms at Moorgate are another source of silly announcements. Departures roughly every 5 minutes, on one of two routes, and typically alternating between platforms 9&10. Every so often however, one train will end up swapping, which then has a domino effect of needing...

Locations within most of London are referred to by the nearest Tube station. I admit some of those were named after pre-existing settlements, but a lot are named after other local features that wouldn't have been very useful for navigation until the Tube appeared.