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East Coastway's Seaford branch has always been pretty bad for ticket less travel. If memory serves it might only be Lewes that has barriers.

There's still large variations between the different weekdays. Tuesday's 08:53 Guildford-Waterloo was full and standing, very nearly had people left behind on the platform. Meanwhile Friday's 08:53 Guildford-Waterloo had plenty of seats left.

That might help the anti-social behaviour somewhat, but probably won't do much to stop fare evaders

Some people really will criticise anything... This seems like a very good job of dealing with a hazardous situation by the railways and emergency services. No injuries or casualties, no damage to property, and only a few hours of service disruption.

The entire Southwestern is terrible for Buddleia. I live in Guildford and see it everywhere near the railway, the bridge carrying the Guildford New Line over the river Wey is terrible. I used to live in Vauxhall/Nine Elms and saw how bad it was on the entire viaduct, and any building within...

It seems mad to me. If you think of the amount of people on a packed commuter train, and the time they spend on the train that could be more productive if they had signal... Seems an easy win for productivity

Newhaven, East Sussex. Population 12,800. Two stations, and a recently closed disused third station too.

Thanks for the thread, this will affect me as I use the web account on the few occasions it's happened. 3 to 4 days seems an arbitrarily low limit.

Terrible on O2 between Guildford and London. As soon as you get a hundred yards outside of Guildford and Woking it just falls off a cliff until you're well inside London, and then it dies again at the approach to Clapham Junction.

There's past preference for this - didn't Rabbit telepoint have cells in a few LU stations?

Family friend is a pilot. His personal car is a knackered Mk 3 Cavalier, as its the only car he dares leave parked at the airports! His partner's car (by extent the family car) is considerably more modern.

Hopefully. Another part of the problem is the shorter trains just outside of the peaks, I'm finding it can be close to full and standing on the five car services.

I've definitely noticed the SWR morning trains getting busier. I used to be able to get a seat, now it's standing only and often full by Woking.

This seems like a good simple solution to me. No initial outlay as GBR will simply take over franchises as contracts expire, so no need to "buy out" remaining contracts. ROSCOs keep the rolling stock so private investment funds the huge initial costs of new trains, not tax rises. Open access...

The airports really like having their "own" service. Being generous, you can see how it makes it clearer for tourists exactly which train they need to get. Being cynical, it allows the ToCs to charge higher fares on that route. If more stops get added to GX, it removes any speed benefit and...