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…
Southend’s Kursaal 50 years on #2
Second part of the tribute to Southend’s Kursaal Amusement Park which closed fifty years ago in 1970. The first post…
Paddington station in colour
Recently Tunnel Breeze have been colourising old photographs of Paddington station in its steam days of the 1930s and 1940s.…
Flying train 1902
In those days it was Elberfeld and Barmen where Eugen Lagen, an engineer from Cologne, built his famous monorail system…
Ealing & Shepherd’s Bush Railway
The 100th anniversary of the Central Line between Wood Lane and Ealing Broadway! The new line opened on August 3rd…
The Bure Valley Railway
The nine mile long Bure Valley Railway opened on Tuesday 10th July 1990 and soon it became one of the…
Southend’s Kursaal 50 years on
This year is a milestone in terms of Southend’s famous Kursaal buildings. Its 50 years since the Kursaal Amusement Park’s…
Young’s brewery canal
This is a follow up to the post I did the other day on Young’s Ram brewery at Wandsworth. The…
Young’s Brewery
This is an anniversary post! Its not any special one but rather its thirty years since I had a tour…
Brindley, Wet Earth Colliery, nr Manchester
I am writing this because I have seen two of Martin Zero’s videos on the excellent work by James Brindley,…
Whatever happened to the North Downs Railway?
North Downs Steam Railway? Never heard of it! Surely you mean the North Downs Line? No it wasn’t that! Where…
The Tokaido Shinkansen
While we in the UK battle wits over whether a new high speed railway should be built or not, I…