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It all worked fine - thanks everyone for the info and advice
Lift was out of order at West Ealing so another passenger helped me carry the tandem down. The staff offered assistance at our destination, but I said it was ok.
On Crossrail it's best to go for the gap between the carriages as there is more space and fewer vertical poles there.
The lifts at Farringdon worked well.
The bike space on Thameslink is plenty big enough for a tandem
Had to go down two flights of stairs at Baldock, but got help from other riders for most of it, at both ends [thanks Xavier, Tim and others if you ever read this!]
Coming back, my stoker had a bleeding knee, from a pedal scratch. It wasn't deep but was bleeding a bit. Four Japanese women were sitting next to us on Crossrail and spotted it, and offered him dressings. When they realised he was blind, they asked if they could attend to it. One pulled out some iodine and cleaned it, and applied a dressing!