Trains no more across the River Taw
Let it be said, trains do indeed still cross the River Taw in many places, eleven times this happens in…
Seventy years of main line signalling in London
The recent decommissioning of the London Bridge power box on 24th July 2020 was in many ways a missed occasion…
TfL’s new tube heritage leaflets
In terms of the tube very little has been published in the way of paper documents since March 2020. Life…
GWR’s NHS Thank You tribute
Recently I spotted GWR’s special liveried Class 800 (number 802020) at Paddington and I thought a post on it would…
A new cableway for Piz Gloria
The Schilthornbahn has been in operation for 55 years. The first stage from Stechelberg to Mürren/Birg opened on 20th June…
Those defunct TfL Twitter accounts!
Yes they were pretty boring much of the time but they were at times useful too! Perhaps that’s why TfL…
Grand Central Blackpool
This week the news arrived, perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, that Grand Central had dropped its bid to start new Euston to…
Crossrail operations at Royal Oak
An important but brief stage in the Crossrail testing regime began on 6 September when a number of trains began…
White Pass & Yukon Railway
Within the series of long rail videos that were published in the summer of 2020 a number of special features…
South Shore Line at Michigan City
The Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Line (the South Shore) is America’s last interurban line – and what is…
Heathrow Class 387
I am sure many know about these new trains (GWR stock that’s actually upgraded and overhauled internally as new) for…
Tinpot Railways special – Morecambe
I wrote about the truncating of the terminus at Morecambe a couple of months back as part of my Tinpot…