Upgrading the Transports Publics Fribourg #3
With the conversion of the line from Bulle to Broc-Fabrique (and its continuation as a private rail…
Upgrading the Transports Publics Fribourg #2
This second part covers the new Bulle station and the famous Bulle to Broc line in part. This line …
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct #3
The final part of the King’s Cross station remodelling took place between Easter and early Ju…
London’s only tube trains with a forward view!
Now that the 1938 tube stock’s long era in public service has come to an end with the last ex…
Upgrading the Transports Publics Fribourg
In the canton of Fribourg, the TPF (previously known as the GFM) has a long metre gauge route (as w…
Oxford Circus escalator pics – the update!
Just over a week ago I published a feature on the new pictures at Oxford Circus tube which featured…
Oxford Circus escalator pics
Work on the down northbound escalators at Oxford Circus is accompanied by a novelty rarely seen at …
The Southwold Railway #3
Forty years of dereliction and decay: After closure the line remained derelict for the next twenty …
The Tokyo to Osaka Line: A history #4
The fourth instalment in this comprehensive series on the origins of the Shinkasen! This covers a s…
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct #2
That darned canal aqueduct at King’s Cross is a major factor why the railway layout at this p…
Alfred County Railway
The Alfred County Railway was a two foot gauge line from Port Shepstone to Harding in KwaZulu Natal…
The first official Great British Railways Logo!
Great British Railways is on the way! Its basically a re-nationalisation of the railways (to some s…
Sir Roundlington Lives!
Sir Roundlington is a name you’ve probably never heard of. He was supposed to be a new TfL ma…
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct
The King’s Cross upgrade is a complex project because of the proximity of the adjacent tunnel…
Thomas Telford in detail (3)
This is the third part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. The first part of thi…
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…