The Scole Railway
The Scole Railway is one of Britain’s most obscure lines. It was a system built to serve farm…
The Rove canal tunnel
This is a special feature covering the Rove tunnel in France. This follows on from the recent Railw…
My, my, what a load of rubbish!
When anyone reads London Rail every article is faithfully written and research is intense (and by t…
Blatten and the Swiss railway
The picturesque upper Lötschental is where the recent calamity involving the village of Blatten occ…
Auditing TfL – plus a requiem for ‘London Transit’
The auditing of TfL is something I have thought about doing ever since TfL’s purple uniformed…
Google Veo3
Soon we will have fake railway and other transport videos that are too good to be true! The launch …
A Tower Subway memo
A London Inheritance published a post detailing the Tower Subway and also implied the southern end …
The Bridgewater canal breach #5
Here’s the latest on the Bridgewater canal’s woes as work to repair/rebuild the disastr…
The Bakerloobe
This is a follow up to the early origins of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway – including…
KX/LNER: A celebration of anniversaries
King’s Cross station had its 170th anniversary and then both KX/LNER celebrated the Flying Sc…
Yup its Pompeii! Rail 2000 #2
One might have thought Yup its Pompeii! Celebrating Rail 2000 had been written in jest, for there a…
London Underground’s longest advert?
Huge advertising currently to be seen at Oxford Circus station has to be a contender for the longes…
Knightsbridge tube’s final weekend
This is the final weekend (commencing 26th April 2025) of Knightsbridge tube station as a facility …
Railways and canal tunnels #4
In writing about railways and canal tunnels one might perhaps wonder why railways and canals in gen…
The Bridgewater canal breach #4
This fourth instalment is three months on from the previous. Perhaps the biggest news so far is the…
Elizabeth line vs other GRC structures
When one looks at existing Glass Fibre Reinforced Concrete (GRC) buildings that have been around fa…
Knightsbridge opens soon!
This is a post first began in 2021 in anticipation of the completion of the Knightsbridge station u…
A certain problem with the railways
When Jago Hazzard says in his latest video (thanks to him for prompting me to write this latest ess…
The ‘Bakerloo tube’
Nigh on a hundred and twenty years ago, London’s fourth tube railway was on the way to being …
Railways and canal tunnels #3
This third instalment looks at the longest canal tunnel in the UK and a long forgotten canal built …
Thruppenny cable car systems
Cable car systems that cost thruppence each? Yes that is what this post is all about! On a far more…
Ghost exorcisms on the Elizabeth line!
The modern day exorcist has arrived! It could be anyone, even you or me, but in this case its TfL. …
The Island Line runaway train 1991
Back in 2019 a feature on runway tube trains was featured. One of the posts published had a short s…
Railways and canal tunnels #2
This is part two of the railways and canal tunnels feature. Whilst it was suggested one of the earl…
The great unwashed 72 tube stock
When it seemed the Bakerloo’s trains were going quite a considerable time without having a wa…
Yup its Pompeii! Celebrating Rail 2000
Alright, buckle up railway fans because we’re about to embark on a thrilling journey of pre-i…
Railways and Canal Tunnels
When one thinks of railways and ‘canal tunnels’ one thing would come to mind and its th…
The Bridgewater canal breach #3
A few days ago much of northern England was shivering in temperatures of minus 6 or more. That didn…
The Bridgewater canal breach #2
Many things have been happening in the aftermath of the Bridgewater canal breach which occurred in …
The Bridgewater canal breach
In my archives I have a book commemorating the reconstruction of the Bridgewater canal following a …
TfL Rail cab ride to Paddington 2019
Cab ride on Crossrail (aka TfL Rail/Elizabeth line) in December 2019 which was filmed and uploaded …
The mystery rail sponsor…
I’m thrilled to share that this blog has gained a sponsor! I reached out to a well-known figu…
Paddington tube station design error is finally righted after a century!
Paddington tube station has something that NO other tube station has! What is it? It could be any n…
The Hammersmith & City’s line’s construction disaster
This is a special post for the 160th Anniversary of the Hammersmith & City line! Everyone knows…
Southgate station – an appraisal
The fact Cockfosters station – an appraisal was popular prompted me to dig out this further l…
Cockfosters station – an appraisal
Despite being the butt of many a joke, ‘Cock Fosters’ as it once was, is a real place a…
Barnstaple to Ilfracombe #3
The former railway from Barnstaple to Ilfracombe opened on 20th July 1874 – 150 years ago. It…
Barnstaple to Ilfracombe #2
This is the second part of the online guide to the Ilfracombe railway and features the stretch from…
The twopenny tube guard who got killed by his own train
In the very early days of London’s premier underground line – the Central London Railwa…
Barnstaple to Ilfracombe #1
The Barnstaple and Ilfracombe railway opened in July 1874 thus 2024 is the 150th anniversary of the…