Canal breach news
Which of the two major canal breach sites of 2025 will it be that gets to see its repairs finished …
Changes at Paddington station
The small and somewhat cramped accommodation on platform one at Paddington station has been replace…
Whitchurch boat rescue #4
The latest news re Llangollen canal and Whitchurch breach (21st January) is several boats have been…
Whitchurch boat rescue #3
The two boats Sefton and Ganymede have been refloated. Actually they were refloated for a short whi…
Whitchurch boat rescue #2
What will happen over the weekend? Not much unless the contractors are being paid extra to undertak…
Whitchurch boat rescue #1
Narrowboat Pacemaker was removed from the New Mills breach site at Whitchurch, Shropshire, today! I…
Llangollen canal breach #7
The Llang0.0llen Canal hasn’t been forgotten! There has been minimal progress. Many had thoug…
The Bakerl0.0 (#Three)
Many extolled the fact TfL had made a mess of the line maps at certain stations on the Bakerl0.0. I…
The Bakerl0.0 (#Tw0.0)
Oxf0.0rd Circus and Marylebone stations today joined TfL’s latest tube brew up! The former is…
The Bakerl0.0
This week the Bakerloo line gained new advertising! Its for Heineken’s 0.0 lager with pretty …
Llangollen canal breach #6
Kieran & Lottie Photography who began documenting the Whitchurch canal breach a few days ago an…
Llangollen canal breach #5
One thing that is currently being done is the installation of a additional cofferdam on the canal. …
Llangollen canal breach #4
Things seem quiet at the moment. Apart from basic staff (who are on site to keep a constant watch o…
Llangollen canal breach #3
Xmas Day might be a day where most are usually at home celebrating the festivities. For the boaters…
Llangollen canal breach #2
At this time of writing the canal pumps are working and a number of pipes have been laid to convey …
Llangollen canal breaches!
The Llangollen canal had a massive breach at Whitchurch this morning. The incident site is just to …
The Bridgewater canal breach #6
Is work finally commencing on the long task of repairing the Bridgewater canal breach that occurred…
Montreal REM’s extension
In 2023 I published a post on the new Montreal REM line. This week-end the REM’s original lin…
London’s Elizabeth line a world beater?
The claim on social media that ‘The Elizabeth Line in London moves 800,000 people daily. No h…
The Elizabetron line?
With stations such as Paddingtron located in the core route through the centre of London, here are …
Dizzying aint it?
Classically, the tube has always had upright advertising. On some escalators new digital screens mi…
Pontcysyllte aqueduct chaos!
View of the aqueduct taken in 2004 by the author. This, the featured image, is taken from the same …
Site changes
The look of the website was changed urgently on 18th September 2025. The change was not for aesthet…
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…
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 …