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See item 4 above- HS1 passes through the whole of Kent without stopping.

Please explain? The Maidstone East line crosses the Medway Valley line just to the north of the station but Maidstone East station is only a about 100 yards to the east on the other side of the River Medway.

There was a station there called Brockley Lane but it closed in 1917. It is frustrating that living in Kent that Eurostar trains on HS1 pass through the whole county without stopping following suspension of stops at Ebbsfleet and Ashford International.

I believe it is Whitehall Crossing between Canterbury West and Chartham

Where are "the large numbers of minor railways..." the RHDR is a 13 miles long narrow gauge line and hardly "minor". Most trains stop at all stations (a few miss St Marys Bay and "The Warren" is served by a special trains)

Dungeness loop on the RH&DR

Forge Farm Crossing is possibly unique in crossing both a National Rail line and a Heritage Railway (Spa Valley Railway)

Correct me if I am wrong but. Was a now disused freight only branch crossed Hamble Airfield in Hampshire ?

Evening dining trains also gala days As a child I lived next to London- Brighton mainline. Imagine my parents complaining to BR to stop trains at 2100 so that I could sleep.!!!!

Whilst working on a heritage railway station I received the following complaints- A passenger arrived 10 minutes after the booked departure of a train and then complained that the train had left on time. A resident who just moved into a house backing on to the railway wanted trains to cease...

and add Newbury Racecourse, Cheltenham Racecourse Do you include holiday camps such as now closed Filey Holiday Camp, Caister Holiday Camp

Some now closed stations- Vulcan Halt Rowntree Halt in York

Some small harbours around the South East- Hampton-on-sea (now washed away after a storm) was on a short branch from Herne Bay which closed in the 1880s. Rye Harbour was at the end of a short branch from the Ashford-Hastings Line. Whitstable Harbour (served by the branch from Canterbury West...

Before final closure of Kings Cross Thameslink in 2007 the station had many name changes but in the 1920s-1930s when the station also had platforms on the Metropolitan Line there was a curosity. The later Thameslink platforms were originally called Kings Cross Metropolitan but the platforms...

At Wimbledon tramlink always used platform 10 and Thameslink services on the Sutton-Wimbledon- Tooting loop use platform 9 - the other side of the same island platform

High Rocks station on the Spa Valley Railway. The access gate to the platform is only opened by the guard when the train arrives for passengers to get on and off and is then locked before departure. The only time there is free access is on the rare occasions the station is staffed.

Three Oaks

When Ashford International was served by International trains a change from platform 5 to platform 4 was as follows- Along platform 5, down stairs into subway, along subway to up side (International station entrance) up two flights of escalator/stairs to International departure lounge...

My favourite is that if Uckfield- Lewes line would still be open with through trains from Uckfield direction to Brighton then train services on the Uckfield would be more heavily used. I am guessing but closure of that line would have lead to reduced patronage of the Tunbridge Wells to Eridge...

I agree there is ".. no such a place a weird places to terminate..." Do you include temporary engineering works in which case there are many from the outsiders point of view but for railway operators point of view it makes sense. During my working days for BR/Railtrack (Southern) here are some...