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    Catford Loop to Blackfriars - why?

    Would have thought Victoria would have been a better terminus at least for the busier part of the line between Peckham and Catford, considering West End access is a bit fiddly from those areas.
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    My proposal to rename Gipsy Hill station

    A semi-serious proposal...alright I am being serious. I propose that Gipsy Hill station should be renamed "Norwood Hills", to reflect the other nearby hilly communities across the Norwood Ridge like Central Hill and Beulah Hill, the latter of which is a remote area quite unconnected from public...
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    Heavy handed staff presence at Clapham Junction?

    I raised this in another thread but I think it deserves a thread of its own. It seems an agency has taken over staffing platforms 5/6 in the mornings and evenings and boy, do I miss the old SWR staff. For someone reason, these new staff take it upon themselves to remind passengers over the...
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    London to Leeds routing

    When did the East Coast gain supremacy over the Midland to reach Leeds from London? The original company to reach it after all was the Midland.
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    What exactly did Thatcher do?

    90s baby here so go easy on me. Not for or against Thatcher in any way, but I want to know exactly what Thatcher did to the social fabric of this country that causes people to mourn the past Britain so much. When people do look at the past in the UK, they almost always look back at an era no...
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    Points of interest in tunnels

    Sometimes when standing by the door window I notice flashes of things in the tunnel as the train races along. A momentary light, something that looks like a passageway, a brief widening in the tunnel section. These little instances seem more frequent on the southern end of the Northern Line for...
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    Fantasy: Power car on both ends on a IC225 set?

    Years ago I made a Microsoft Train Simulator activity revolving around a "test train" from Bounds Green to York with a modified IC225 formation that had a class 91 on each end. So the entire rake looked like a Eurostar or IC125. The idea was that the player was meant to use this extra power in...
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    What if the London & Birmingham and Midland Counties merged?

    What if these two railways merged to create a larger Midland Railway? After all the MC relied on the L&B to get to London for most of its use via Rugby. Was such a merger ever contemplated and what would have been the results?
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    Does Britain embrace ignorance?

    I always thought that it does. Promoting personality, "star appeal" and style over intelligence. A culture of bashing "boffins" and a widespread pride, almost, amongst the population over a failure to understand maths or science. "Don't ask me, I just have a Maths O-Level" I've heard many times...
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    Hull Trains services formed of two sets

    I saw a double unit Hull Trains service run through Hitchin yesterday at about midday. Is this normal? Never saw it before, but the two 802s coupled together made a fine sight. Wouldn't a double working cut down on the amount of stock for services later in the day?
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    London to Kings Lynn

    I want to travel to Kings Lynn this week, but National Rail enquiries seems to be forcing me to go via Liverpool Street and a rail replacement bus from Audley End to Cambridge. Being prone to car sickness I'd rather go via Peterborough, change to Ely and carry on to Kings Lynn, but NR seem to be...
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    East Grinstead - wrong branch closed?

    I travelled down to East Grinstead from London recently and found it took quite a long time with all the different stops on the branch. I couldn’t help wondering whether closing the current line from Hurst Green to EG and keeping the branch from Haywards Heath open - which presumably would have...
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    PSBs not near a station

    Are there any power signal boxes that aren't located at or near a station? I know Sharnbrook is one example, but most I think are near a station complex.
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    Did Beeching affect Britain’s productivity?

    Just thinking of all the lines, especially in urban areas that closed, that might have held back conurbations outside the South East. Or the other medium sized towns that lost their rail service. Could Beeching have contributed to Britain’s low productivity at all?
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    Hornby 2024 range

    Does anyone have any ideas on what could be or what they would like to see on the Hornby 2024 range? I will say the same thing I say every year: bring back the NSE 4-VEP and class 466. Another go at the Eurostar in the original livery would be nice too.
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    Swiss Railways

    Had a trip on the Swiss railways recently and found them very interesting from an enthusiasts perspective. Some of the train formations are completely wild; I've seen trains with a DBSO type carriage at the front, hauling a rake of coaches, with a locomotive in the middle and a continuing trail...
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    Should the Great Central have been merged into the GWR after grouping?

    Something I've always thought about. Surely it would have made more sense; they shared a common corridor into London and a busy intertwined freight network. Would have also made a complete South West/North East corridor under single metals. I wonder too if the GWR would have seen the GCR as an...
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    How *should* HS2 have been built?

    I really don't understand what's happened to HS2, but is there anything that could have been done earlier on in its history to have made it more deliverable? I've been looking at various transport forums for over ten years, and even back in 2012 when I first logged onto Skyscrapercity...
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    Sprinting with Sad Sprinter

    Yesterday I had what was my first trip on a Chiltern Railways service out of Marylebone in a very long time. I last made a journey from Marylebone in 2005, so it was lovely being able to use the GCR's little terminus once again. This time I took the mighty journey from Marylebone all the way...
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    Avanti Overtime Ban

    Hi all, is the 2nd October safe to travel on Avanti despite the overtime ban?

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