I cant answer all your questions but:
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Originally Posted by Simple_Simon
First he talks to the chap who punches the ticket actually on the train. Is that person called the train conductor? (Ramsgate branch of the Chatham Main Line, out of Victoria.) Then he speaks with the ticket man at the platform at Victoria – who I suppose is the ticket inspector? The end of the platform – would that be called the ticket gate or maybe the platform gate?
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In the fifties the chap on the the train would be called a guard, or sometimes there would be a ticket insoector, not a conductor. Even small village had staff and ticket offices, so buying a ticket on the train was a rarity.
Check if Victoria was an open station in the fifties (though this was something still coming in). The chap on the exit gate (?) would be a ticket collector if I remember rightly.
A slow train to Ramsgate might be a Maunsell L class
CLICK: Ramsgate railway station geograph-2682277-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg I wonder why they weren't electric?