Seen Around

Tuesday 30th June 2026 Halfway through 2026 and time for another month end round up of miscellany spotted on my travels during the last few weeks. Its very first Nationalised journey And first up is the irony of spotting the very first GBR branded Southern Class 387 train calling at Hassocks station on the very first weekday morning of the new nationalised regime of the former Govia Thameslink Railway on Monday 1st June ….. on the 08:06 Brighton to Victoria which is….. a Gatwick Express journey…. so, of course, …. “tickets marked ‘Southern only’ are not valid on this service”. Nice one. And then inside I noticed the brand colouring and seat moquette is for the former GWR services the train used to operate… … and then I noticed the train stayed on Gatwick Express workings all week. I’ve been told there are “security reasons” for this, but won’t repeat them here as they seem too far fetched but interestingly I’ve yet to see it on an actual Southern working. The Blackwater Link A far…