please empty your brain below
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At I guess, I think the typeface for “MORDEN SOUTH” is Century Gothic, in bold
Tim Burns | 07.05.26 - 7:05 a.m. | #
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I'm really enjoying these "I have questions" posts.
Frank F | 07.05.26 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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So it actually has 4 trains per hour.
2 in each direction.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 07.05.26 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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You actually really should do this for all 500+ London stations or however many there are. I am enjoying these immensely!
Alan | 07.05.26 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I believe you also need a “Yeep” locker for the full set.
dg writes: the nearest Yeep locker is half a mile away at St Helier station (thanks)
Emma | 07.05.26 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Aren't the Platform 1 and Platform 2 signs the wrong way round?
And you might be moany about the sanctimonious signs, but somebody clearly wants to take a stand against vandals. Good on them, I say.
Petras409 | 07.05.26 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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oooh that really is a lovely Morden South sign
Scott | Homepage | 07.05.26 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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I may be wrong, but I think the pink line is a First Capital Connect thing. Their franchise ended in 2014. Shortly Govia will go too, to be replaced from the end of May by a public operator (but not TfL).
dg writes: company colours...
2006-2014: First Capital Connect
2014-2026: Govia Thameslink
Andrew | 07.05.26 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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Talking of Anagrams. The local cycling club is the Redmon CC.
N Garnham | 07.05.26 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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The original plan for the Sutton loop was to have 4 trains an hour in either direction, but terminating at Blackfriars and requiring a cross-platform interchange to continue north. I wonder if the locals who campaigned for direct trains all the way to Luton and St Albans and a reduced frequency of 2 tph even use the trains nowadays.
Sutton Loop resident | 07.05.26 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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And to think if all had gone according to plan before WW1, it would have been on the District Line's extended Wimbledon branch to Sutton.
ap | 07.05.26 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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It's so unstaffed that even when the line is closed for engineering works you can still go up to the platform. No-one ever bothers to lock the station, it seems.
Morden Souther | 07.05.26 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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Really appreciate how you keep on giving to the rest of us. Almost always feel a kinship with your attitude. Yet today not feeling so.
Started looking for what felt better:
"Somebody clearly wants to take a stand against vandals. Good on them, I say." Good on Petras409
Is it possible to arouse empathy in the heart of one spray painter for the feeling that its an ugly world, rather than his feeling proud, "I did that."
Remembering my youth I doubt he will be moved.
It seems okay to try though.
JohnD | 07.05.26 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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It does appear counterintuitive that while four trains an hour leave Elephant & Castle the Sutton Loop only has two per hour! Not sure how else you’d do it… but for an inner (ish) part of London it does appear to the worst of all possible solutions.
Michael Jones | 07.05.26 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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The meeting point sign is, as your image says, for those requiring assistance getting on the train.
Bob Walker | 07.05.26 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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...yes, but it's an unstaffed station.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.05.26 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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You book it in advance and staff show up.
Bob Walker | 07.05.26 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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So which least used station is served by the highest capacity trains.
But it does explain why its Morden South and not South Morden
It's odd how the parcel locker suddenly became a thing (although accessible to the public, the ones I've seen aren't on the public highway, using supermarkets and railway stations, getting around planning issues), in the olden days it would have formed the basis of a good Dr Who episode, with 'alien of the week' using it as a way to take over the earth.
I love the false positivity, 'Step-free Category C station'.
Isn't a 'Meeting point' also a health and safety thing for emergency services and evacuation.
Still Anon | 07.05.26 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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City & South London (Rly) not City & Southern.
Kim | 07.05.26 - 11:07 a.m. | #
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Chained Wombles
HTFB | 07.05.26 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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I have seen those pink stripes being repainted recently at Thameslink stations on the MML.
Whoever put them there originally, GTR seem to want to keep them.
Hwenk | 07.05.26 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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The pink stripes are visible in this photo from 2012.
miker | 07.05.26 - 4:24 p.m. | #
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The 'other' signage has the typeface used by the initial post-privatisation Thameslink franchise (until First Group took over in 2006 and applied a lot of pink paint around the place). I can't name it, thuogh.
NickW | 07.05.26 - 6:47 p.m. | #
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Govia operated the Thameslink franchise from March 1997 until March 2006.
miker | 07.05.26 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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Am enjoying this series, which DG says isn't a series!
We use laminated posters to try to encourage people to put their litter in the bin. Generally something simple pointing out why ("Volunteers regularly need to litter pick so..."), or a picture works better than a lecture!
Cornish Cockney | 07.05.26 - 7:23 p.m. | #
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'Isn't a 'Meeting point' also a health and safety thing for emergency services and evacuation'
You're thinking of RVP which usually includes a box containing fire plans of the premises.
mclm | 07.05.26 - 7:34 p.m. | #
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Morden tube was ‘my’ Tube station for the first 25 years of my life. I have *never* been to Morden South.
Steve | 07.05.26 - 10:18 p.m. | #
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The pink stripes are a First Capital Connect thing. They were very enthusiastic about painting all of their stations in First corporate colours. You can find the same stripes on stations on the Great Northern half of the network.
The old Govia Thameslink’s colours were blue and yellow, and the new GTR Thameslink has always been a placeholder franchise and barely has a corporate identity.
Graham | 08.05.26 - 12:14 a.m. | #
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There are also Quadient aka Quad lockers. These can be used for a range of brands including Royal Mail and Evei. They are grey and red, in contrast to Royal Mail's all red lockers.
Larger unmarked grey lockers can sometimes be seen, I believe these are used to distribute parts for collection by service engineers.
Jack Kirby | 08.05.26 - 12:23 a.m. | #
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DPD also operate lockers, the closest are possibly the ones on Crown Lane, at the Post Office.
Penny | 08.05.26 - 12:48 a.m. | #
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It raises the old question of whether the Sutton Loop would get more patronage if the service wasn't dreadful (by London standards). I'm aware that it's not possible due to the through running and that's why they wanted to terminate at Blackfriars, but that ship has sailed.
I'm just grateful that they've extended the clockwise service from central London out to 11pm now. It used to stop at 2030 and you'd either have to sit through Wimbledon and back up the other side or find a different route.
Chz | 08.05.26 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Morden South is/was very useful! My first London home was in Wimbledon and my local council offices were Crown House in Morden. There's no easy tube link and I was far too naive to figure out the buses, but whenever I needed to go and grizzle about my housing benefit, the direct train to Morden South was just the job.
Marshwerg | 08.05.26 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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