Hyde Park Now’s 1000 posts – & some unpublished stuff!
The ‘Sixty years since the last train to Cwm Prysor’ post was the 1000th post on Hyde Park Now! Previously…
The new tube maps (Dec 2020/Jan 2021)
The long awaited new pocket tube map first announced in December 2020 (and in fact introduced in two different versions…
Trains no more across the River Taw #5
The final part of the online guide to the Barnstaple & Ilfracombe Railway. This is the final section of the…
That Geoff M Isle of Wight video…
How shall I begin this…? A special post on the Isle of Wight railways was written in conjunction with the…
Heathrow disconnects its Class 360s
The train services which were known as the ‘Heathrow Connect’ operation ended in September 2020. The units on these services,…
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…
Trains no more across the River Taw #4
The third part of the online guide to the Ilfracombe railway. This takes us from Georgeham Gates to Willingcott, near…
Longest London tube videos #1
In the tradition in which I did the other long rail videos – done during the first corona lockdown of…
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…
Island Line Jamboree
In view of the first of the Class 484s’ arrival on the Isle of Wight it was deemed a post…
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…
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…