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I second Krakow: its the only railway station that I've ever connected at and managed to get lost. I technically didn't get a train but instead a bus from the airport and was trying to connect to a tram and despite trying to follow all of the signage to the trams I simply couldn't find the...
Its a weird thing since I am one of those people that do fall asleep after going out and I've had some not very nice moments (luckily never harmed; usually in a friends flat so I let my guard down) but I've never had any issues falling asleep or over travelling on public transport when going...
I've never unintentionally over carried: its my greatest fear when I'm on the train and so I think that helps keep me awake even when I'm very tired or very drunk or both. Its been close a few times but luckily it was only ever on a commuter train or the Tube so if I'd noticed it'd have been...
The only time I had an issue was at Euston earlier this year when I was travelling to London and back to Scotland in a day for job interviews and I was combining an advance down with the special off-peak return half that I think they dropped over the summer. I once had the "its peak time; this...
The other Thameslink one you can add is London Bridge-Dartford via Greenwich: four trains an hour are Southeastern (starting at Cannon Street; although not all of them go to Dartford, I think a few go round one of the loops to return via Sidcup or Bexleyheath), two are Thameslink (which go...
I struggle to see where you put them in Greenwich to cover everywhere - the main National Rail building sure but unless they staff that first to last then you have the gate to the side that's the access: but the DLR end has an underpass which people who don't need the station use and I don't see...
pretty sure those proposals were based on having new rolling stock and increased capacity which, well, they aren't getting now so I doubt it especially since if anything they're losing capacity.
I don't know if the DLR counts for this but I'll include it anyway: Woolwich to... basically anywhere on the DLR but especially the line up to Stratford is significantly quicker than other methods. Woolwich to King George V is like three minutes; walking is maybe ten to fifteen minutes if...
Sometimes they're helpful to avoid confusion - for example when it comes to loop services it makes sense to list a midpoint station for both bits of the loop to avoid people accidentally going the wrong way. To use an example I know well: you have trains that, say, start in Cannon Street; go...
I've recently moved to North London so no longer have to deal with Southeastern but something certainly needs to be done there in terms of extra capacity and new stock for metro lines. I had already noticed some shortening of trains (from 10 to 8 and 8 to 6) which might be because of the...
They also reverse trains at Platform 8 sometimes - got a Woolwich train from there earlier this week after some disruption which I guess was them stopping a Charing Cross train short. Would make sense to do that though; although then you'd need lots of announcements during times of disruption...
Lines 2 and 5 of the Brussels metro do this: they start at Elizabeth station; go in a big circle and then stop at Simonis station which is... down a set of escalators from Elizabeth station; with both being in the same building with the same entrance. 5 reverses there to go back around the...
At the moment (until August anyway) I leave literally a minute away from Abbey Wood station and so am lucky enough to have two companies at the moment (the third, well, we'll see when THAT opens); admittedly two that tend to finish low on these polls.
I commute five days a week to Central...
Just a quick question about a journey that I might have to make in the next few weeks.
I live in Zone 4; South East London and might need to make a trip from my house to Southend and then from Southend into the centre of London at some point in the next few weeks. I have an Zone 1-4 travel...
I'm sure that I've seen the "between xxx and yyy" message when a train has been on time before - although thinking about it its mostly been on trains on the Greenwich/Woolwich line going towards Slade Green/Dartford so I imagine that the case there is that the TfL information isn't overly useful...