you will find me legging down exactly the platform in that picture every evening on my way home from London!

whatever the locos, that line has gone completely down the drain since One took over the franchise.  Crap service, no apparent maintenance on the rolling stock, obscene prices in the buffet (£1 for a 40p packet of peanuts, £1.65 for a coffee ...), ridiculous price hikes in the carpark (£1000 a year), deliberately more convoluted way of claiming compensation designed to make you give up....  Forgive me if the romance of the railways passes me by....