Just noticed on the ‘look and feel’ selections, there’s some sort of artefact following the selected options about:

I saw it in my YT suggestions a few days ago, the bloke who uploaded it had said it was a ‘historic video’, I assume he wasn’t quite up to speed with copyright law. At that time a couple of comments already mentioned he was wrong to post it.

I think the original black and white TV series in the mid sixties was almost all studio set and filmed in London, but I think they did use a number of real northeast outdoor locations in the 73/74 follow-up.

The station scene in “Strangers on a Train”, where Bob and Terry are on and off the train was definitely filmed at Newcastle, it was one of the longer east end bays that have long since been closed, it became a carpark when the Metro took over the local routes.  (It might have been P4 in the 1970s numbering, but that’s difficult for me to check.)

The platform building seen at about 20m 40s, and again at about 27m, is still there though, and can be seen on Google street view if you look around the furthest east end of the main concourse.

There’s also a shot of a “Doncaster” platform sign with the Newcastle Central curved roof in the background, at about 21m 20s,  the light fittings are the type used at Central back then.

https://youtu.be/9HTOdm8757Y?si=_rhb9eNrZr2NDR9w

Paul

It’s not really new news, the current government had cancelled the highly optimistic ‘restoring your railway’ long list quite a few weeks ago.

ISTM the “I” are just catching up. 

Paul

Excessing to the correct fare would have absolutely no deterrent value. Once people realised they could safely just buy the cheapest advance they could find, then why would they ever buy the correct fare again? How does a guard tell the difference between someone doing it accidentally once or intentionally every day?

If you were to allow for that single ‘mistaken’ incident, you then need a robust means of recording names and addresses.  Then wait for people arguing that they shouldn’t have to provide the info.

Paul

I think I’ve read previously it is an overnight shift, and they have a break in situ.

Weren’t there signs on the footbridge about the toilets being on the A side or B side of the islands, which was a slightly odd usage because most people would refer to the A end or B end of the platforms…

Paul

Can we please bin “arriving into” please, and go back to arriving at?

Paul

How about a world Jenga championship with the appropriate tools… 

Paul

“A lawsuit alleged that customers with London Travelcards were not offered cheaper ‘boundary fare’ tickets when travelling inside London’s fare zones.”

I’d say that's not strictly accurate. The purpose of boundary zone fares is to allow people who already have a travelcard to extend their journey to a place outside the zones.

Can't be sure if that's copied from a misleading source or the journalist hadn't understood the explanation.

Paul

If they want US Dollars they’ll probably have to be planted in the green belt…

I don’t think that helps much as it seems they’re completely unrelated, either technically or geographically.

That is almost certainly out of date information. It was ever only a possible option in the 2009 electrification route utilisation strategy, but that document already stated a preference for OHLE from Basingstoke to Exeter. The ORR^» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) decision to avoid any future DC^▸ (Direct Current) extensions came later.

I expect if NR^» (Network Rail - home page) got a bit jumpy about the right fence height they could seek the view of a kangaroo court?