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    West Acton Platform Damage

    Ah yes, I read West, my mind visualised East
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    West Acton Platform Damage

    Didn’t they literally just renovate the platform?
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    Trivia - how many stations have a road bisecting their platforms and hence a level crossing within the station

    Hykeham
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    Your nicknames for stations

    Clapham Junction: Clappy J Willesden Junction: Willy J
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    Noise from under ground

    I live 300 metres away from Balham High Road and I can hear the northern line faintly rumbling in the distance when I’m lying in bed in silence
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    Northern line operation questions

    Why would direction of travel affect whether it’s best to change at Kennington or Stockwell & Euston? I’ve lived in Balham for five years and have always used the Victoria line to travel to Warren Street and beyond.
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    Trivia: Station amenities that have departure boards

    The Beer House - Waterloo
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    Trivia: Stations in settlements named after the Station

    Elephant and Castle
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    GTR - Clapham to Milton Keynes service now terminating at Watford on Saturdays

    Are they ever going to run out to East Croydon again?
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    Trivia: Promotional "Change At _ For _" announcements?

    West Brompton on London Overground still has ‘alight here for Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre, despite being demolished for nearly five years.
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    Station buildings - what are they used for nowadays?

    The former Lincoln St. Marks station is an Argos and a Lakeland shop
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    Trivia: Stations with both a footbridge and a subway.

    Clapham Junction
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    Trivia - named stations that were located outside their towns etc.

    Clapham Junction is in Battersea
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    Blockade to allow Waterloo upgrade to take place, resulting in timetable changes

    Playing around with train times on Saturday the 12th at least, it looks as though inbound SW mainline trains are diverted via (and stopping at) Staines, but leaving Waterloo they go via Wimbledon as normal. Just the northbound tracks between Woking and CLJ out of action?
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    Trivia: Shortest journey that includes all operators?

    Oxford Road does not have a tram station (Deansgate does though). Even if this were true, what's the difference between that and getting the tube from Kings Cross to Waterloo?
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    Theoretical plan to tell how busy a train will be

    When using the TrainLine app, a thing called busybot asks me how busy my carriage is, and this collects data to predict how busy other trains will be. This is used, for example, when I check live train times now, the app is telling me that there are free seats at the front of the train for the...
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    "Operational Incident" ECML this morning (23/01)? Any further info available?

    Must have just missed this! I was on the 8:30 KGX-NCL service which got to Peterborough at 9:20.

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