Island Line Jamboree
In view of the first of the Class 484s’ arrival on the Isle of Wight it was deemed a post would be in order to celebrate the Island Line in a nutshell from 1966 to 2020 using images from various
Month: November 2020
The Victoria Line’s really big 50th birthday! #3
7th March 1969 when the Victoria Line really came into the world. On that day fifty years ago the Queen officially opened the tube line in a ceremony at Victoria station. This third part of a special feature covering all
The first Class 484s arrive in Vectis!
Finally its happened! Fifty Four years after the first ever electric trains were ferried across the seas (well the Solent actually) to the Isle of Wight, the third generation of trains for the island were sent across the waters this
PlayStation on the tube!
PlayStation comes to London’s Underground! Its only a forty-eight hour stint but has so far attracted a lot of attention in its first 24 hours! The advertising campaign is to publicise the launch of PlayStation’s PS5. The Verge said of
The Tokyo to Osaka Line: A history #2
This is the second part of the planning/construction of the Shinaksen. Its straight in to the history! The construction of the Shinkansen would require enormous investment, some thought it would be as much as 200 billion yen. A significant proportion
Trains no more across the River Taw #3
The second part of the virtual tour along the route of the Barnstaple to Ilfracombe Railway. The line closed in October 1970 after British Railways had totally rationalised the line in an attempt to keep the costs of running it
The Victoria Line’s really big 50th birthday! #2
The big day was on 7th March 1969 when the Victoria Line really came into the world. On that day fifty years ago the Queen officially opened the tube line in a ceremony at Victoria station. This second part of
Southwark’s deep level tube shelter
This is all about ‘The Deep!’ Its however not the sequel to Jaws and its apologies to Peter Benchley! ‘The Deep’ apparently was the nickname for the Southwark deep level bomb shelter sited within the City and South London Railway’s
ALFA-X breaks records
Japan’s new high speed train – the ALFA-X (Advanced Labs for Frontline Activity in rail eXperimentation) has a maximum speed of 248 mph (400 km/h). On Tuesday October 27th it almost reached this speed on a special run for journalists