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    When the slow line becomes the fast line

    Back in the days when all the services were operated by FGW, there was a curious late evening swop at Slough. One of the stopping trains would shuffle across to the up main and wait for ten minutes or perhaps longer to be overtaken by a stopping semi-fast. In the meantime HSTs would trundle...
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    Stations with roads inside

    Part of Hull Paragon has been converted to a bus station.
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    'Under a 10 minute walk between stations' but not an OSI?

    It was already popular with workers near to Central Line stations fifty years ago. Without ever measuring it, I had the perception that the walk between platforms from Bakerloo to Central or vice versa at Oxford Circus was just as long as Paddington to Lancaster Gate. Also the run from Oxford...
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    BT Copper to Fibre

    I thimk that's what they intend. The existing master socket would be replaced by a gadget with a socket to plug in an existing phone or phones. The gadget would be a router of some sort. If there is already a router plugged into the master socket through a filter, presumably the wiring can be...
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    Potential Grand Union stock?

    When first built, the Bishops Road platforms were regarded almost as a separate station and all four platforms 13,14,15 and 16 had four rail electrification and connections through to the Circle line. In a 1960s remodelling, the Hammersmith & City line trains were moved to platforms 15 and 16...
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    Trivia: Stations more than one change from London

    In peak hours the Maidenhead to Marlow hourly shuttle splits to become a half hourly service. So Maidenhead to Bourne End, walk round to the other platform, then Bourne End to Marlow. Time of day and connections permitting, less than an hour to or from Paddington. There are no longer any through...
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    "Valid only via London" & break of journey at destination & without resumption?

    I think there was a similar query about whether a High Wycombe to Manchester via London return was valid on a Chiltern train from Birmingham stopping at High Wycombe. It may even have been whether it was valid on a Cross Country service via Birmingham.
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    GWR silly Advance policy to Oxford

    It looks as if it's still four per hour from Maidenhead, so it's possible to take the half hourly 387 and change at Maidenhead or Slough.
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    I'm getting uncomfortable reading the disputes forum now - they are making me lose confidence in traveling with Advance tickets.

    Something that bothers me about split Advance tickets is this. Suppose there's a route with a mixture of non-stop and semi fast trains. Let's assume you have an Advance ticket on one of the stoppers with a split at one of the less frequently served intermediate stations. Are you expected to...
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    I'm getting uncomfortable reading the disputes forum now - they are making me lose confidence in traveling with Advance tickets.

    I don't think it's always entirely clear what you can or cannot do with Advance tickets. I had a recent experience of this when the through LNER service from Harrogate to Kings Cross via Leeds was cancelled. The staff at Harrogate, Northern presumably, were advising passengers booked for this...
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    Why did the GCR run to London via Rugby?

    Where did the GWR fit into this? The line from Old Oak Common to Banbury was part of the same project. Indeed from Ruislip to somewhere near Banbury it was the GW & GC joint. Had they sought and been given running powers, that could have give the GC another London terminus at Paddington. It...
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    HS2 via the M40

    I think they considered running it parallel and south of the M40 past Beaconsfield and High Wycombe. Following motorways can introduce a lot of curves and it would have needed a massive viaduct to cross the Wye valley near Wooburn Green. If you only wanted additional capacity between London...
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    How could unsatisfactory branch shuttles be improved?

    As well as the Greenford branch, the lines out of Paddington also featute Slough - Windsor Maidenhead - Marlow Twyford - Henley Reading - Basingstoke Didcot- Oxford All are well used.
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    How did you get around London before the M25 opened?

    In the 1960s for a route which today is M40, M25, North Orbital, we would go Beaconsfiield, Amersham, Chesham, Bovingdon Green, Hemel Hempstead, M10 and then North orbital, crossing London, to or from the west, either the A40 and North Circular, the A40 followed by Euston Road and connections...
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    Trivia: Railways that were proposed for closure but did not closed.

    Trains from High Wycombe would have gone to Paddington and those from Amersham were to be replaced by Metropolitan Line services to Baker Street. So I think the line from South Ruislip to Marylebone would have closed. From Marylebone to somewhere convenient for motorways, the idea was a...
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    Settlement of £115.50 for 'Failing to show a valid rail ticket' (due to expired railcard) - help please!

    Print or display something on the ticket to show that evidence of a railcard had been supplied. It assumes ticket sellers have access to a database of valid railcards. Although there are numerous ticket selling sites there are only a limited number of ticket engines that supply and price the...
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    Settlement of £115.50 for 'Failing to show a valid rail ticket' (due to expired railcard) - help please!

    The system would be more customer friendly if (a) there was a warning when attempting to purchase a discounted ticket without a railcard valid for the dates of travel (b) when the ticket had been purchased with a valid card, it was flagged so it was no longer necessary to produce the railcard...
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    Possible end to paper tickets in South East?

    I would have thought it just needs a mechanism of registering a contactless card or cards against the discount Railcard How easy that woud be to do in practice and whether it would run into legal complications is another matter. For leisure travellers, the absence of Railcard discounts is a...
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    "Passengers travelling from stations on the Greenford branch or Ealing broadway may travel via Slough"

    There's also a question of convenience. Using a paper ticket on the branches and contactless on the main line is going to be influenced by how easy or difficult it will be to change from one ticket type to another by touching in or out when changing at Twyford, Maidenhead or Slough.
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    Extension of Bedwyn stoppers to Westbury

    Wasn't it one of the boundaries of the NSE area? But perhaps it had been used as a terminator for Paddington DMU services long before that.

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