You’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 […]
Read MoreThey haven’t closed Euston station – not yet! The HS2 machine is still marching on relentless however as reported sometime back it all depends on the Oakervee report. They were not actually planning on closing the station completely! Nevertheless things have met their end regardless and one of the bigger victims of HS2 was the […]
Read MoreToday is the sixtieth anniversary of the closure of South Wales famous electric railway, the Swansea and Mumbles. It was a very unusual line being one of the world’s first ever passenger railways, and despite being described as a tramway, legally it was a main line railway. The final train ran in January 1960. Huge […]
Read MoreWelder Dave’s message ‘Have a wonderful day.’ People have been thanking Dave the welder – but who is he? He’s one who wrote on a newly laid rail at Baker Street eastbound Jubilee Line platform ‘Have a wonderful day. Love welder Dave’ Its an unusual touch and there for everyone to see! Quite a few […]
Read MoreSixty years ago this week the last passenger trains rain on the County Donegal Railways. Its popular knowledge the last public trains bowed out on December 31st 1959, but what is less known is the railway continued solely as a regular freight operation for a further five weeks or so. Which means, like several other […]
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