Walter Briscoe wrote:
I visited this outer London station on Tuesday - before Boris's fares
and improvement budget announcement on Thursday.

I was surprised to see a wood-slatted up escalator. I would have thought
all these have gone since the King's Cross fire.

I noticed that as well a few years back.

I left by the First Great Western (FGW) service to Paddington which runs
at 16 and 46 minutes past the hour. It takes 26 minutes for 9 miles.
Is this the slowest rail service in London?
Just for fun, a misplaced bag at Ealing Broadway cost 5 minutes.

How'd you like the semaphore signals?