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This has happened to me on a flight. It was a lovely moment. (And lovely flight, as it turned out...)

Definitely this (though Peterborough rather than Cambridge in my case). Direct trains to where I work, direct trains to Gatwick, single change (with lifts!) for Heathrow, and occasional trips to ExCeL, single change at Redhill for the North Downs Line to see family. I don't love the 700s, but...

This is something I'm very sensitive to, as the "wrong" lighting is quite painful for me, and also a migraine trigger. "Wrong" can mean many factors, or combination of factors, around brightness, colour and flicker. Too bright, too dark, too blue, too slow a flicker, and it sets me off (for...

I call it Brenda.

Maybe it was speeding?

In my current house, I can hear trains a mile and a half away, across town. It's a quiet place, and dependent on the wind direction. In my old house, a hundred metres from the railway line, there was an odd acoustic effect where, in the right weather conditions, the trains sounded like they...

IIRC it's presented as "Lime Street Liverpool" at Ely (and Norwich, for that matter) for this exact reason.

It's a bit different in the Netherlands, though - IME there's relatively little bicycle storage on trains, and the hours are quite restrictive. Instead, you have big, easy to use, secure cycle parks and a national, dirt cheap rail-cycle scheme. Denmark is an interesting example to look at...

Back in the old Thameslink days, I used to work near Moorgate, and had a habit of having to go into work after an overnight flight into Gatwick. So I'd hop off at Farringdon, and there was often a Moorgate train on the opposite platform, so I'd take that, rather than cram into the...

Loophole is probably the wrong term. Referring to the fact that London Terminals tickets into King's Cross are equally valid to Old Street and Moorgate, both via Finsbury Park and on the Tube from KXSP. Have met loads of people who always pay for travelcards, but they're only going to Moorgate.

Slight diversion, but I used to do a lot of IT subcontract work, in all sorts of places - you'd have the standard dress of no jacket and no tie. I spent a while in a couple of large hospitals (doing some pretty cool IT stuff, and having some scary moments in live operating theatres), but...

What about Japanese style? Have dedicated reserved and unreserved carriages, with the number of each varying according to expected passenger flow. Make sure seats can be booked at any time up to boarding (which is easier with fully reserved carriages, as you're never turfing anyone out of...

One of my oddest ones, when living near Tooting, was falling asleep on the Northern Line after getting on at Moorgate after work, and waking up again at Moorgate going in the opposite direction!

Commuting on WAGN/FCC/whatever for many years, you used to frequently get people for Finsbury Park on the first-stop-Biggleswade evening expresses. Quite often, they'd ask someone, and then insist that it did actually stop at Finsbury Park, despite the sign - "they" just didn't want you to use...

On the 317s, the PIS always used to announce "Arr-less-see". Mind you, the number of people who think it's "Ars-lee" anyway...

Oh, definitely. So count the line from London Bridge to Charing Cross in this one!

Dundee's got quite an approach, too. Just ask William Topaz McGonagall. (North Queensferry also, if you count that as major...)

Newcastle, from the King Edward Bridge, surely has to be a contender.

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. Oh no, my mistake, sorry.

By that point, I'd stopped noticing such things :)