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    Which single-span footbridge crosses the most tracks?

    Heritage England have today picked out some of the most notable structures added to the national heritage list this year. Among them, listed Grade 2, is the footbridge dating from 1889 at Hindley, Greater Manchester, which was built to span 9 tracks (of which, from the picture they provided...
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    Connections to Isle of Wight - minimum connection times

    I see that, following the welcome reopening of Ryde Pier, SWR have put on their website the traditional timetable showing train services between London and Shanklin. Very good (although it’s a pity nobody thought to remove the now outdated text reference to buses replacing trains between...
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    Stopping short on alternative route during disruption

    I have an advance ticket from London Paddington to Worcestershire Parkway during the period during which the Nuneham Bridge will be closed. Rather than take the Didcot to Oxford replacement bus I intend to use one of the alternative routes for which ticket acceptance is in place, ie via Swindon...
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    Inaccurate route diagram

    Waiting for a northbound Northern Line train at Euston (Bank branch) I noticed that the route display on the opposite wall has the two branches of the line in the wrong geographical relation to each other. In reality, trains to Edgware turn left at Camden Town, not right as shown here. Is this...
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    Use of split tickets following cancellation of a train

    Last night, the train I was going for to return from Cardiff to London was cancelled. Fortunately I was at the station early enough to catch a Taunton train, and by changing at Temple Meads, got to Paddington only about 5 minutes later than originally planned. Result. I was travelling on...
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    Wightlink / Island Line connections.

    Any evidence that foot passengers wanting to get to the island have been unable to do so because of lack of capacity? At worst, they might have to wait for the next sailing. Loadings on my recent crossings on the cat have ranged from nearly full to half-empty. Wightlink have felt able to...
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    E-tickets to London terminals

    I often buy tickets from Portsmouth to London. I use the journey planner to find trains from Portsmouth to Waterloo and buy an advance ticket. If I collect the ticket by TOD or post, it shows the destination as London Terminals, which allows me to backtrack from Waterloo to Vauxhall, which is...
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    Obligation to provide overnight accommodation- ferry crossings

    I travelled on a day return from West Cowes to Basingstoke (through ticket) for a concert. My return journey, on a Cross-Country train, should have reached Southampton in plenty of time for connection with the last ferry to West Cowes. However, somewhere near Micheldever we were blocked by a...
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    Through tickets from Island Line to Southern destinations

    I can buy through tickets from island Line stations to all sorts of unlikely destinations on the mainland, but for some reason through tickets are not available to stations on the Southern network in most of West Sussex. (I have been trying to book from Brading to Chichester). Southern...

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