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They jump. They are very light and thus don’t hit the ground at any speed.

Because Egyptian Geese nest in trees (incidentally they are ducks rather than geese despite the name). The parents can fly.

I’ve used London Bridge (Southern/terminating side) quite a lot as my preferred service is the Caterham and Tattenham Corner one. The Up Sussex is, obviously, used frequently. I can’t recall going from the Up Sussex fast to the South London line via the Spur, but it’s possible it’s used by the...

Sorry. I’m a Purley Oaks person - makes me sound posher than the South Croydon in which I actually reside.

I don’t disagree. That said the flexibility has been missed occasionally, most notably if a train sits down at South Croydon. It also means nothing can terminate at South Croydon something that is an engineering work option. 1713249761 Thanks.

As mentioned above there is a problem which is why the connections are totally rusty. 1713209258 Yes, everything heading to Purley is routed via platform 4. 1713209294 Cannot at the moment - the rails are rusty.

South Croydon Junction is where the five tracks heading south from East Croydon split into two tracks to East Grinstead and four tracks to Purley. From east to west there’s the down slow, the slow reversible, the up slow and two fast line tracks which aren’t part of this discussion. There’s a...

But what are they doing? Looks like a lot of work by East Croydon station but there’s also a worksite at Lloyd Park.

As for Moorgate and other busy two platform termini the irony is that additional platforms don’t always provide additional capacity. Stratford (Jubilee) in an example. The biggest throughput is with two platforms (plus stepping up). Having a third decreases capacity and thus the third one is...

Exactly. A different example would be tapping in at East Croydon and tapping out at West Hampstead on a service going from Brighton to Bedford. One point not mentioned yet is the sheer convenience of not having to buy a physical or even e-ticket. Turn up 30 seconds before the train, tap in and...

I believe this right. Balham Jct would have been even harder to work than it is now if paired by direction and getting trains over at Victoria would also have needed work.

I think that may be 50% of the male population not the population…

Victoria still gets semi-regular excursions, though not sure if the Orient Express still runs. I hear the throbbing of a class 67 every once in a while when walking through.

So do I. The Liverpool/Manchester and Birmingham ones as well.

i didn’t read it as a reference to London, given that the topic being discussed was Birmingham. If if it was this was a bit of a non-sequitur in a thread that was focussed on Birmingham at the time.