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  • The Bakerl0.0 (#Three)

    Many extolled the fact TfL had made a mess of the line maps at certain stations on the Bakerl0.0. It can now be said that has all been put right and there are no longer any Bakerl0.0 line maps showing Kilburn Park and Maida Vale the wrong way round! One of the corrected maps at…

  • The Bakerl0.0 (#Tw0.0)

    Oxf0.0rd Circus and Marylebone stations today joined TfL’s latest tube brew up! The former is similar to Waterl0.0 however its not quite so comprehensive in the variation seen at the latter. Marylebone also came on stream – and even though its contribution appears to be the smallest of all – it actually has the BIGGEST…

  • The Bakerl0.0

    This week the Bakerloo line gained new advertising! Its for Heineken’s 0.0 lager with pretty negligible alcohol (at the most 0.05%). Hence the Bakerloo was restyled as the Bakerl0.0 line! The 0.0 looks better in Johnston and that explains why the advert has a great effectiveness when one views it in that particular font. Some…

  • The Scole Railway

    The Scole Railway is one of Britain’s most obscure lines. It was a system built to serve farmland and market gardens. Passengers were never carried. The Scole Railway is considered one of the pioneer systems built for the specific purpose of serving farms and agriculture. The system connected with the main Great Eastern line at…

  • Yup its Pompeii! Rail 2000 #2

    One might have thought Yup its Pompeii! Celebrating Rail 2000 had been written in jest, for there are no railways to be found two thousands years ago – and yet in that article there were a couple of illustrations depicting steam trains within the Pompeii landscape! There’s every possibility people thought this was a joke…

  • Yup its Pompeii! Celebrating Rail 2000

    Alright, buckle up railway fans because we’re about to embark on a thrilling journey of pre-industrial rail travel! Forget your high-speed bullet trains and reclining seats – and that means a focus upon Railways 2000! We’re going back to a time when “comfort” meant not getting splinters in your, shall we say, posterior. Italians invented…

  • LRB Site Map HTML Version

    This is the highly vaunted London Rail index! Its messy, crappy! Yes I know – but its better than nothing! Main index:Every single post that’s been published thrown into the same single column just for sheer confusion! Missing or deleted posts included too – gosh there’s just so many of these! A substantial number of…

  • The Southwold Railway #3

    Forty years of dereliction and decay: After closure the line remained derelict for the next twenty years or so. There were moves to reopen it, none of which came to fruition. Most of the route’s track remained until the early forties. The army blew up part of the Blyth bridge thus the line was severed…

  • The first official Great British Railways Logo!

    Great British Railways is on the way! Its basically a re-nationalisation of the railways (to some sort of extent based on the TfL model where individual companies manage the various transport systems TfL requires as part of the day to day operations keeping London on the move.) I’m not going to write very much about…

  • Sir Roundlington Lives!

    Sir Roundlington is a name you’ve probably never heard of. He was supposed to be a new TfL mascot, but he didn’t make the cut. Other examples of short-lived mascots include Wilfred the bunny, who failed to make the cut in the 1920s. Sir Roundlington is probably the least well-known, and after being deposed from…

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