In those days it was Elberfeld and Barmen where Eugen Lagen, an engineer from Cologne, built his famous monorail system…

The 100th anniversary of the Central Line between Wood Lane and Ealing Broadway! The new line opened on August 3rd…

The nine mile long Bure Valley Railway opened on Tuesday 10th July 1990 and soon it became one of the…

This year is a milestone in terms of Southend’s famous Kursaal buildings. Its 50 years since the Kursaal Amusement Park’s…

This is a follow up to the post I did the other day on Young’s Ram brewery at Wandsworth. The…

This is an anniversary post! Its not any special one but rather its thirty years since I had a tour…

I am writing this because I have seen two of Martin Zero’s videos on the excellent work by James Brindley,…

North Downs Steam Railway? Never heard of it! Surely you mean the North Downs Line? No it wasn’t that! Where…

While we in the UK battle wits over whether a new high speed railway should be built or not, I…

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the closure of South Wales famous electric railway, the Swansea and Mumbles. It was…

The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at Fort Cumberland in Eastney.…

Trans Karoo express traversing the Hex River vineyards. This week its the 30th anniversary of what was initially Africa’s longest…