TfL station gets Xmas makeover…
Santa really did give Oxford Circus station a mighty big Xmas makeover! It certainly beats me how it was done – maybe security had been cut? Perhaps it was some management or other thinking as it was Xmas Day and
Month: December 2020
Longest London tube videos #2
The second part of the London Underground longest drivers eye videos. I know ‘long’ in terms of the UK is anything but because the UK doesn’t do these like for example when we can get seven hour long examples for
Marylebone station’s anniversary #2
From the 1950s to the end of the eighties. BR 45292 at Marylebone in April 1948, on what is possibly a Manchester express. Note the lower quadrant signal midway on the platform! It can also be seen in the picture
Heathrow level boarding degrades….
The end of the Heathrow Class 332 trains is imminent and although that final moment has been deferred yet again to some point later in December as things currently stand – despite , there’s one thing about the ‘new replacement
Longest London tube videos #1
In the tradition in which I did the other long rail videos – done during the first corona lockdown of 2020 and created specially for those enforced situations where few of us could venture outside of home without any good
Euston Station Anniversary Special #2
Euston station is a place one can either like, or hate. Much applauded for its modernist design and more like an airport terminal than a railway station, nowadays many people see it as an eyesore. Many begrudge the fact the
Seventy years of main line signalling in London #2
The Central Section resignalling scheme which we looked at in the first part of this feature was conducted in a number of stages between 1950 and 1955 and it covered the main lines out of both London Victoria (actually Pouparts