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If we also count rival metro/commuter train networks, then two that come to mind are Bad Homburg (S) and Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim (U) near Frankfurt and Spandau (S and mainline) / Rathaus Spandau (U). I'm not sure why the U-Bahn line in Bad Homburg didn't connect to the S-Bahn line. For Berlin...

Last I looked (quite a few years ago!) there was still a surprisingly large German rail fan presence in Usenet in the "debx" groups (de.etc.bahn.*).

There will be no connection at Hamburg Hbf as the EC 496 does not stop there, so you're left with about 20 minutes in Altona. It will not travel as far as Hbf. ("Bypass" isn't quite the right word.) It's coming from the north and entering Hamburg from the (north-)west -- the side that Altona...

Is it not possible to make a door that is securely locked from the outside but can easily be opened from the inside?

Though not necessarily a travel fare. Some places in Germany have the concept of a "Bahnsteigkarte": a ticket that allows you access to the platforms (i.e. to the area where holding a valid ticket is mandatory) but is not valid for travel. When I was a child, it was priced at something like...

Wait until you get to Devon; I think St Budeaux Victoria Road and St Budeaux Ferry Road (just outside of Plymouth) are even closer together, especially if you look at the entrances: just about opposite the road from each other. (Google Street View image: https://goo.gl/maps/csJ7iFuM8hMFrpZd9)

They would go well with the ticket barriers installed at the entrance to the station and the passenger information screens showing the "next fastest train to …" featuring at least Looe, Liskeard, and Coombe Junction Halt (which only a handful of trains call at, so you can't just use the...

Warrington West goes with Warrington Central and Warrington Bank Quay but no Warrington East (or North or South). Not sure whether "Central" counts as a compass direction here.

Those all sound like an argument for having more people on board selling tickets and/or more people checking them! In the "pair of units" case, have one in each half, for example. On services known to be full, have one for each coach. Or even two, if the distances between stations are short...

Perhaps the "Spanish solution" could help -- where people get off using one side of the train and get on using the other, so both can (in theory) happen simultaneously. (It would require inside corridors and staircases to be wide enough to accommodate two streams of people moving in opposite...

Isn't revenue protection the role of Revenue Protection Inspectors (RPIs)? I thought that guards are primarily responsible for the safety of the railway (e.g. opening and closing doors so that the driver can focus on operating the train) and secondarily for customer service such as providing...

Fair enough. I was just a bit surprised the first time because I hadn't known about it. Now I do.

Had this happen to me just now -- I triple-clicked the text of a forum description in order to select it (and then copy it), and the forum paused for a brief moment before telling me it had marked that forum read.

Can’t say I blame them, given Stratford vs Stratford International!

Is that the one that then becomes a stopper heading back to Shrewsbury? So that if you wanted to go to Borth or Bow Street from Pwllheli, the fastest connection would be to "take three different trains" while actually staying on the same one all along?

Well, electrify the branch lines, then. Simples.

Reminds me of a journey I took in Slovakia from, I think, Bratislava via Žiar nad Hronom to Martin (the train continuing on to Žilina, I believe). Advertised as two different trains. Looking at the expected coaching stock on vagonweb showed the two trains to look suspiciously similar. I asked...

Is that where the trains that go to Heartfordshire leave from?

Do you mean (Seevetal-)Maschen?

Ahhhhh! That makes a lot of sense. I had wondered how paying 10p (or whatever) and getting a little slip, then paying the remainder at the next possible occasion, was better than simply paying the entire sum there. But if the little slip says not just "10p paid" but "10p paid at Ottery St...