There was once a guy in Bradford who said to me that he liked the furniture in Bella Pasta. Why? I asked. Because, he said, you can always see it (i.e. no one was ever in there).

Joking aside. The New Cross train is like Bradford Bella Pasta. It whistles down the track from Highbury carrying half a dozen people. Seats clearly visible. It stops at packed platforms of people waiting for trains to somewhere else. Hardly anyone gets on, hardly anyone gets off. Why are there so many of them? Can one or two go to Forest Hill instead? Who knows about these things?