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    Most hated non-UK station

    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...
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    Trivia - Furthest you've seen someone carried beyond their intended stop

    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...
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    Trivia - Furthest you've seen someone carried beyond their intended stop

    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...
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    If you buy a valid ticket for your journey, are you guaranteed to have it accepted?

    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...
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    Trivia: Competing TOCs that serve the same route

    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...
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    SouthEastern franchise direct award through to 1 April 2020 (& franchise competition terminated)

    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...
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    SouthEastern franchise direct award through to 1 April 2020 (& franchise competition terminated)

    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.
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    Trivia: Locations that are significantly quicker to travel between by train than other methods

    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...
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    The implications of false destinations for ticket validity

    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...
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    SouthEastern franchise direct award through to 1 April 2020 (& franchise competition terminated)

    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...
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    London Bridge shortlisted for award

    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...
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    Trivia: Journeys where the route crosses over itself (on the same service)

    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...
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    How do you think ordinary fare paying passengers think of their service?

    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...
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    Oyster validation question

    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...
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    “This train is between” on CIS Displays

    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...

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