Electric railroad: Rockies #2
Most of the westward extension has now vanished and many of its structures have been demolished, sa…
Electric Railroad: Rockies #1
Forty years ago one of America’s most iconic and controversial transcontinental lines closed …
The County Donegal Railways #3
The third part of the CDRJC feature covering the line’s closure and what can be seen of the r…
Noisy Barbican tube trains #2
Historical knowledge of rail vibrations London Underground has known for decades there is a problem…
Those noisy Barbican tube trains!
Briefly, this is an overview of the problems of tube trains running beneath the Barbican Estate in …
The Tōkaidō Shinkansen
While we in the UK battle wits over whether a new high speed railway should be built or not, I thou…
The County Donegal Railways #2
This is part two of the tribute to the famed County Donegal narrow gauge railways which closed on t…
The County Donegal Railways
Sixty years ago this week the last passenger trains rain on the County Donegal Railways. Its popula…
Coventry Canal #2
The Coventry Canal opened in 1769, that’s 250 years ago. Its architect, James Brindley, worked on t…
Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal was one of the country’s earliest waterways to be opened following the suc…
Liverpool Street Shenfield anniversary
Its seventy years since the Liverpool Street – Shenfield electrification first began. The sch…
Central Line: beyond Caxton Road #2
Remember the popular post Central Line: Beyond Caxton Road published more than two years ago? This …
A 1956 tube stock mystery
A special post about the 1956 tube stock. Piccadilly Circus station staff sent a tweet (one of thei…
Build Crossrail’s City Airport station!
Again & again it’s been said Crossrail should have a City Airport station. This week the …
Southwold Railway
The Southwold Railway – England’s premier three foot narrow gauge passenger railway! Th…
The Southwold Railway
The Southwold Railway – England’s premier three foot narrow gauge passenger railway! Th…
Marylebone station’s anniversary #1
The 120th anniversary! The first official train left Marylebone 9th March and the station opened to…
Marylebone station’s anniversary
The 120th anniversary! The first official train left Marylebone 9th March and the station opened to…
Runaway tube trains #3
The third part of the runway tube trains series. Waterloo & City, Island Line and other inciden…
Runaway tube trains #2
In the first part of this we looked at runaway trains on the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Piccad…
Runaway tube trains
Imagine a tube train that somehow finds its own way through tunnels. People may think it never happ…
Rare mixed track Baker Street #3
Another installment in the Baker Street track replacement works series! This time we can see the en…
Old tube station reveals itself!
Fifty years ago in February 1959, the last tube trains to served this particular station were withd…
Rare mixed track Baker Street #2
The very unusual mixed rail track at Baker Street is no more. It lasted probably just one day! What…
Rare mixed track at Baker Street
The UK’s railways have one type or another of rail which are flatbottom or the increasingly r…
Tube Xmas posters and pictures
Now that Xmas is most definitely over, can we move on and look forward to the New Year? Not just ye…
St Pancras at 150 #2
A follow on from Monday’s feature which showed mainly aspects of the station and the railway …
St Pancras at 150
Today its 150 years since St. Pancras station opened its doors. These pictures range from the const…
King’s Cross Thameslink’s tunnels
The history and construction of the lines that make up Thameslink are of considerable importance be…
Reshaping London’s tube for the future
Two new tube lines for London – without anyone really noticing! I wrote this in November last…
Tube Viaduct Mystery!
Remember the Arnos Park viaduct mystery? How many arches did it actually have? Here’s another…
Thameslink’s Canal Tunnels open!
Thameslink’s Canal Tunnels opened today! The new north-south services began operating through…
London Bus Photos – Route 150
Route 150 – Aldgate to Victoria Bus Station This really should have been a 30th anniversary p…
By Underground to Shanklin
This year was the 50th anniversary of the Isle of Wight’s ‘underground’, an anniv…
TfL’s new mascot?
The new guy on the tube? He’s the aristocrat who’s helping TfL with their awareness campaigns…
The Arnos Park Viaduct Mystery
Arnos Park Viaduct on the Piccadilly Line is the biggest brick viaduct ever built for London’…
The DLR 30 years ago (2)
As I pointed out in Part One of this feature, the opening of the DLR to the public was not without …
The DLR 30 years ago
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Docklands Light Railway. It was officially opened by the Queen…
Tube stations that began life as a terminus #2
When one asks which tube stations are true underground termini, the answer would be Brixton/Waltham…
Tube stations that began life as a terminus
When one asks which tube stations are true underground termini, Brixton, Walthamstow (both Victoria…