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Old January 5th 14, 11:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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Default Happy and Prosperous 2014 to all
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:37:39 +0100, Robin9
wrote:

Some other examples: Victoria to Brighton; Waterloo to Portsmouth via
Guildford; Waterloo to Bournemouth & Weymouth: all used to be 12 coach
trains. They're not today.

In the early 70s I used to commute between Woking and Surbiton on 12 car
trains. In the afternoons I could see 16 car expresses heading down
through Surbiton.


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