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Posted by Rail Blue on Mon Jan 8 06:55:47 2007, in response to LONDON photography incidents (Was: Cockfosters), posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Jan 5 03:44:51 2007. 1. I was stopped at Victoria Terminal and told to go to the office to get a photo pass. I did and the woman there was very nice. I then walked down one of the platforms and got some nice photos.That's technically unnecessary unless you plan on selling your photos, but seeing as Southern are rather good at misinforming their staff about the rules (and in this case, because it is one of the 17 "major stations"*, this too) it's probably harmless. * the "major stations" are London Bridge, Cannon St, Charing X, Euston, Fenchurch St (yes, major as in a four-track terminal served by one company - how the hell this crept in (whilst Marylebone rightly did not) I don't know), King's X, Liverpool St, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo; Birmingham New St (the British version of New York Penn - massively under-capacity, not enough platforms, awful access to platforms, horribly rebuilt in the 1960s, and a tunnel short at the busier end); Edinburgh Waverley; Gatwick Airport (again, slightly silly, trumped only by the silly idea of running four franchises down the Brighton Main Line); Glasgow Central; Leeds City; Liverpool Lime St; and Manchester Piccadilly. Note the absence of many stations that would be considered major by most people outside Whitehall: Brighton, Bristol Temple Meads, Cardiff Central, Carlisle Citadel, Clapham Junction, Crewe, Exeter St David's, London St Pancras, Newcastle Central, Norwich Thorpe, and so on. Really, the entire term is a political device without any real meaning. In my opinion, Cannon St and Charing X should be transferred to Southeastern; Euston, Birmingham New St, Liverpool Lime St, and Manchester Piccadilly to Virgin; Fenchurch St to c2c; King's X and Leeds City to GNER (or replacement); Liverpool St to "one"; Paddington to FGW; Waterloo to SWT; Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central to Scotrail; Gatwick Airport to Southern; London Bridge and Victoria split between Southern and Southeastern as they're really two stations each. Network Rail could then be eliminated from running stations. 2. At the Victoria Underground station (District Line), two plain clothes police officers stopped my wife for taking a photo of a vent above the tracks because she liked how the natural light was shining on the tracks. They were a pain in my butt and made us miss two trains. Oh dear... |
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