
London Rail – briefly
The site’s author wishes to focus elsewhere on the problems of society and humanity as these are far more pressing issues that even that of the railways. The country’s transport systems has plenty of advocates who can extol the advantages and disadvantages of the railways in the UK. Other aspects, such as discrimination, hate, abuses, these are patently more important for the author at the current time, so articles on London Rail will take a back seat. There will of course be the occasional article but other than that, unless there is some urgent issue involving the railways (such as abuses or discrimination against the disabled for example) the author’s focus shall be elsewhere. What it means is the dedicated amount of sheer research that has been undertaken – detail that has often not been shown anywhere else – will no longer be a thing on this site. Even the recent discovery of a completely vast and unknown transport source had initially prompted the idea of new insights in to the history of the UK’s railways, yet it eventually impressed that serious priorities needed to be made. Time has to be focussed on one matter or the other, and not both. Its far too much work especially when so little thanks has come for the work done on London Rail. The railways have enough people writing, blogging, vlogging, so that is how its to be. One simply does not need disabled people slogging away, basically expending practically all their available time and effort writing articles for the railways.
Posts Round-Up
- Whitchurch geogrid and 6F5
Today at the Llangollen canal works at Whitchurch there were scenes of an 8-wheeled tipper… Read more: Whitchurch geogrid and 6F5 - Once more unto the breach…
The Llangollen has again entered the foray with another breach. Whether this is a sign… Read more: Once more unto the breach… - A TfL spaghetti farce?
Art on the Underground’s new endeavour has a fun theme for children this summer –… Read more: A TfL spaghetti farce? - Congo cab ride – the unseen story
A train cab ride released over a week ago has garnered over three million viewers… Read more: Congo cab ride – the unseen story - TfL tube map poster changes
This is a quite different post especially considering the considerably hot weather that abounds at… Read more: TfL tube map poster changes - The Surrey Iron Railway #2
The world’s first railway to be authorised by an Act of Parliament was the Surrey… Read more: The Surrey Iron Railway #2 - London’s first CTC project
The tube was the first in the UK or Europe to adopt automated train control… Read more: London’s first CTC project - New Mill’s mystery ‘DMU’ tunnel
A recent video from Our History Underfoot (26th May 2026) covering the former Hayfield branch… Read more: New Mill’s mystery ‘DMU’ tunnel - The Morden-Edgware line
When it comes to the history of the London Underground, the Morden-Edgware Line is essentially… Read more: The Morden-Edgware line - The Wetterhorn Aufzug
Switzerland’s first ever cable car was once to be found near Grindelwald. Sometimes it is… Read more: The Wetterhorn Aufzug - The Surrey Iron Railway
Plateways, characterized by their flat-topped rails or “plates” often laid on stone blocks, were designed… Read more: The Surrey Iron Railway - From revisionist to factual
Remember the post A Revisionist Surrey Iron Railway? This post goes further that the detail… Read more: From revisionist to factual
Recent Comments
Yes it has been uncovered for sometime as videos by Riley Robey and Kieran and Lottie have shown. I have…
The secondary culvert, which was buried as a result of the breach, has now been completely uncovered, flushed out, and…
Yes, these are terrible misrepresentations of the true route of this historic railway. The fact that so many remains of…
Thanks for your comments. Yes these boards, which can be seen in Coulsdon on a recent visit I made, are…
The REASON I have a dark mode site is because it hurts my eyes and brain to have to constantly…

Malte: Have written a new post on the Whitchurch breach largely as a result of your comments. (Published 2.30am on…