Last week most of Central London had copies of the Evening Standard with a special feature cover from Great Western Railway. It was no doubt aimed at day trippers who might wish to take advantage of GWR’s new IETs (their green Azumas if you like!) Especially those faster services that are being offered with the […]
Read MoreNorth Downs Steam Railway? Never heard of it! Surely you mean the North Downs Line? No it wasn’t that! Where was this other railway then? It was a short-lived heritage line in North Kent, based not far from the southern end of the Dartford tunnel. The NDSR began life with plans for the preservation of […]
Read MoreBeing the one where the PM has given the project the full go-ahead for stage one from London to Birmingham Curzon Street. The stages northwards will be known as High Speed North and more details will be forthcoming over the next few weeks on how the whole project will be redesigned, reshaped, and rolled out. […]
Read MoreBriefly, this is an overview of the problems of tube trains running beneath the Barbican Estate in the City of London, and the huge noise nuisance that’s generated as a result. My post looks at the history of the estate’s tunnels’ construction and how things look today. It also looks at the noise blight which […]
Read MoreYou’d think our railways couldn’t get any worse! Whilst a certain You Tuber was extolling the virtues of the new Greater Anglia 745’s, their biggest reputation at that very moment was the ability to breakdown for more than five hours, blocking a major railway route in to London! It seemed Greater Anglia had little inkling […]
Read MoreThe incident of a tram careering through the dead of night because its driver had suffered a seizure has caused much alarm in Europe. In fact it was the implications upon the Schwebebahn which made me wonder what the whole issue was about, and why the Schwebebahn – not even a tramway of any sort […]
Read MoreWhile we in the UK battle wits over whether a new high speed railway should be built or not, I thought it would be a good idea to do a feature on the world’s first ever high speed railway – the New Tokaido Line. It was originally planned in 1940 albeit with lower speeds. Although […]
Read MoreThis is part two of the tribute to the famed County Donegal narrow gauge railways which closed on the very last day of 1959. In the first part we took a look at the CDRJC’s route to Ballyshannon and Killybegs. In this second part we look at the CDRJC’s other stations including Derry and Letterkenny, […]
Read MoreThis is the second part covering the Euston station underground taxi rank – and features some more stuff that has now been ‘lost’ since the old taxi rank closed nigh on a year ago. The above picture shows the intersection where the various routes from the taxi ranks and public car park joined up before […]
Read MoreAmidst all the reports this week on the openings of Crossrail is one that was greatly missed (as well as another important factor too!) Everyone has been saying Crossrail (as the Elizabeth Line) will possibly be open in late 2021 (autumn whatever.) In a nutshell that was the central core. Then the east side (via […]
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