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And how many people do that slog?

On a non-fruity theme is there another sequence in which two stations “named” after a single place have one named after another in between as well ie like Hackney Central, Homerton, Hackney Wick?

The Southern Railway’s routes were very much those of the pre-Grouping railways. If it didn’t exist in 1900 it tended not to exist in 1939. The same applies to the Southern Region of BR. Of course there are exceptions (Thanet for example) but not many.

Ie using the South Eastern and Chatham main line from Tonbridge? As stated above the Southern went via Haywards Heath; doubt in pre-grouping days the LBSCR and SECR/SER would have contemplated a using each others’ lines.

Good point well made. The South Coast town market has definitely grown as an outpost of Brighton and as those who moved there in the 50s and 60s have died and been replaced by younger exiles from London. Coastway East has a leisure market as well - the busiest non-strike train I’ve been on since...

If small is two 5 carriage platforms then much of the Windrush and Mildmay lines of the London Overground. If small is passenger usage then exclude them as passenger numbers put some (eg Hackney Central and Homerton) into the top 150 GB stats.

Trains to Ramsgate via Sandwich are advertised as being to Sandwich (when East of Ashford) to prevent people getting on them and wasting 30 mins when they should have used the faster service via Canterbury.

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Are those ages minimum or maximum? Ie if a steel body builder was 26 were they in a reserved occupation or is it that anyone under 23 doing that job was in a reserved occupation?

Selhurst to Clapham Jct, but not Balham, from a station perspective is an example. Then East Croydon, (now itself rebuilt) Purley Oaks and Purley as the line was quadrupled going south. Horley as well from this period and I think St Leonards Warrior Square, although not due to quadrupling. All...

I’m not one to argue, at least all the time, that money should stay where it’s made. We are a country after all, not a series of countries. But the reality needs to be understood.

The taxpayers places you mention are subsidised by those in London and the South East.

What do deaf people think? A hearing person saying something is wrong seems wrong.

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Finally someone else remembers this. One of the very few ways pre-Overground to do the Ludgate lines from Clapham Jct. Not busy when I went either.

On Oyster or just on contactless?

In 1987 my day train from Port Bou to Narbonne certainly looked like it was formed of the night stock from Paris. Very long train; not many passengers.

Currently a Southern train from the High Level route via Battersea Park can access platforms 7 and 8 at Victoria. 8 is rare but not unknown in disruption; 7 is very rare. Otherwise access from the Clapham Jct direction requires use of the Stewart’s Lane low level lines. South Eastern trains...

I remember catching a Saturday service from either platform 3 or 4 at Clapham Jct which had come from Reading and headed to the Kent Coast. I got off at Ashford (Kent). It will have gone through Ashford (Middlesex - now Surrey); don’t know if it stopped there. Mid-late 80s Summer Saturdays.

Though historically major termini had an arrival and a departure side. So a station could have a platform only used for arrivals - trains went out ECS and one used for departures - train arrived ECS. The layouts at Paddington and Euston in particular facilitated this. At Euston there was an up...