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This is just a curiosity for me, trying to understand some odd service pattern that I randomly spotted. The NRE app showed a delay from my local station (SMY) of the 13:22 to Blackfriars. This service doesn't normally exist but in this time slot there is usually a Kentish Town train...

When units get cascaded and shortened in the process what happens the spare carriages? There has been suggestion lately then when the 319s move up north they might get reduced from 4 cars to 3 so that they can be doubled and run as 6 car services. I wonder what will happen to the spare...

I forgot to top up my oyster last time I was in London and now I'm pretty sure it does not have enough remaining on it for me to get back into London. It does however have enough to make some journeys from my local station so I guess touching in would be allowed. Will I be able to touch out...

Not sure if this is the right subforum? I couldn't find a light rail specific one even though I was expecting to after the recent changes. This had kind of turned into a story - sorry. As a Londoner I was quite surprised today when I failed to identify the correct platform at Canning Town...

I've just seen a picture on Facebook of a Southern 377 with some quite extensive grafitii on it paying tribute to Trigger. I'm not interested in a debate about graffiti itself. But it did occur to me that I've never seen a train in service with this level of graffiti before. Perhaps on...

My question is in 2 parts. First - If I had a pre purchased paper ticket valid for travel between Blackfriars and St Mary Cray but service from Blackfriars was completely suspended, would a walk to Waterloo East, train to Orpington, then bus to St Mary Cray become a reasonable route...

Looking out of my office window onto Waterloo station that appears to be a 450 (8+ cars) half way into the station butted up against a 455 (also 8 cars?) at, what I think is, platform 17 This doesn't look normal to me! I'm guessing there was a routing error, or a points failure leaving no...

Is there a maximum length on a passenger train on the mainline? (Also - is it different for an out of service train?) With the exception of Eurostar I'm not aware that any in service passenger train has ever been more than 12 carriages? Long distance trains on the SEML have been 12...

With all CHX -> Hastings trains being cancelled today due to the land slip (at Wadhurst I think?) That presumably means that some or all of the stock that would normally run that service is currently not required? I assume the line will stay shut for some time until repairs are carried out...

This one has baffled me for a long time. Why can the departure boards system not link up a delay on an incoming service with a delay on the outgoing service which it forms? I was sat at Orpington today waiting for a Victoria train. The board quite clearly stated that the incoming 1347 was...

Does anyone know if/when it will be possible to pay using NFC on a mobile phone on national rail in the London (i.e. current oyster) area or beyond? I've traditionally always had an annual ticket but now that I will only be travelling some days it makes more sense to use payg. But the oyster...

I was pondering earlier today - how did we arrive at the current rail and wheel design? I expect a lot of thought has gone into it over the years and that it remains the correct design to use. However, with all the poor adhesion lately I can't help but wonder whether alternatives might be...

So I was turfed off a train today, along with many many other passengers after the train apparently ran out of sand. The train was Sevenoaks to Blackfriars and beyond. When I I boarded at St Mary Cray The train was already about 8 minutes late. We crawled out of the station at less than...

Having taken a different route this morning due to delays I was surprised to hear the driver of the train to Victoria explain not only why the train is late but also why he was driving slowly - due to the rails being slippery, and not because he wanted to annoy all the passengers! Much...

So I had this idea a number of years ago and thought I'd throw it out there for criticism. The basic idea is that all trains on a given route could become all-stations while remaining fast resulting in high frequencies at all stations resulting in shorter journey times across the board...

It has been observed many times that often a train can be packed in like sardines at one end and have seats available at the other. While I personally prefer to board near where I want to exit - I won't do so if I know I'm going to get crammed in when there is space elsewhere. Would it...

Hi everyone, first post on here although I have been reading for a while. I have some ideas and questions that I've built up over time but I'll start with this one. Herne Hill is well recognised as being a rather large bottleneck on the CML and BML due to a large number of conflicting...