Amidst 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 […]
Read MoreThis, a tribute to the final HST services on the East Coast Main Line after forty-one years. The last ever HST into King’s Cross arrived at 15.09pm on 21st December and large crowds are in attendance to see this historic moment. The train had come from Leeds where it had left at 11am, and this […]
Read MoreAs most will know the Victoria Line fully opened in its original format during March 1969 – and this alone ensured the Victoria Line received great publicity worldwide compared to the mediocre openings of the earlier stages between Walthamstow and Warren Street. It was an event where the Queen of the British Isles became the […]
Read MoreYou’ve no doubt read the excellent book ‘Rails Across the Border’ by Alexander Mullay about the former routes between Scotland and England? This is a new one being launched for for 2020! Completely new subject, new author and the rest of it! Here are some extracts from the new book – let’s see what’s its […]
Read MoreAnother post on that, erm… you know, new fangled London railway that I’ve loved writing about so much! Simply can’t get enough of it! TBH that’s not the case really. Although I had said I wasn’t doing it I decided at the very last minute to catch the first erm… CrossElizPurpLine to the capital of […]
Read MoreSo it arrives! Crossrail goes to the wild west a year after the whole damn new line had been due to open in Central London. This westwards stage in fact was supposed to be its fourth and final stage! As it turns out they’re opening it – ‘on time and on budget’ – sort of! […]
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