Thomas Telford in detail (2)
This is the second part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. Telford was of course one …
Thomas Telford in detail
This isn’t some anatomical write-up on the composition of Thomas Telford’s body! Rather…
Tower Subway gets filmed!
London’s mysterious Tower Subway, which opened in August 1870 and was the site for the city&#…
BR & LT decimalisation
This weekend fifty years ago both British Railways and London Transport began a major task in their…
The Tokyo to Osaka Line: A history #3
The third instalment in this comprehensive series on the origins of the Shinkasen! We begin with th…
The Southwold Railway #2
The railway’s route from Southwold to Halesworth: From the station itself the line headed across So…
Köln – Bonner Eisenbahn
The Köln-Bonner Eisenbahn’s (KBE – or the Cologne to Bonn Railway) Rheinuferbahn once p…
Marylebone station anniversary #3
From the 1990s to the present day. Pair of 115 DMUs at the station. 1990 possibly. Source: London R…
Marylebone station anniversary #2
From the 1950s to the end of the eighties. BR 45292 at Marylebone in April 1948, on what is possibl…
The Tokyo to Osaka Line: A history #2
This is the second part of the planning/construction of the Shinaksen. Its straight in to the histo…
Southwark’s deep level tube shelter
‘The Deep’ apparently was the nickname for the Southwark deep level bomb shelter sited …
The Tokyo to Osaka Line: A history #1
Writing a comprehensive history upon the origins of Japan’s Shinkansen is a large project ind…
Rails to Ilfracombe #2
This week is the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Barnstaple to Ilfracombe Railway. This open…
Rails to Ilfracombe #1
Trains do indeed still cross the River Taw in many places, eleven times this happens in fact. Howev…
Tinpot Railways – Morecambe
I wrote about the truncating of the terminus at Morecambe a couple of months back as part of my Tin…
MILW picture gallery #2
The second part of this special gallery of Milwaukee Road scenes! Most are from Flickr pools –…
MILW picture gallery #1
I thought I’d do a gallery of Milwaukee Road scenes! Most are from Flickr pools – and n…
Tinpot Railways: Terminal decline #3
We continue with our investigations into what could be said to be the ‘public sphere’ o…
Tinpot Railways: Terminal decline #2
This looks at further examples of British railway’s 4xD policy. That is Demote, Deconstruct, …
Tinpot Railways: Terminal decline
The good old British railway system! One of the fighter points for the UK’s successful tinpot…
The UK’s double deck conundrum 2
This is a post examining the long held refutation that double deck trains simply cannot be used on …
Young’s Brewery canal
This is a follow up to other stuff on Wandsworth’s Young’s Ram brewery and the Surrey I…
The UK’s double deck conundrum
A few weeks back I had written draft posts with the title Tinpot Railways – these being a…
On the Milwaukee Road #4
This is the fourth part of the Milwaukee’s electrified Rockies route through Montana towards Easter…
On the Milwaukee Road #3
This is the third part of the Milwaukee’s electrified Rockies route through Montana towards E…
On the Milwaukee Road #2
This is the second part of a look at whats left of the railroad’s 440 mile route through the …
On the Milwaukee Road #1
A tour featuring some of the highlights of the 440 mile electrified length of the Milwaukee Road be…
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 …
Brindley, Wet Earth Colliery, nr Manchester
I am writing this because I have seen two of Martin Zero’s videos on the excellent work by Ja…
Five get to Bristol briskly
Last week most of Central London had copies of the Evening Standard with a special feature cover fr…
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…
Whatever happened to Brunel's bridge?
The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at…
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…