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 …
The Blue Train
Britain’s newest train, can be said to be ‘blue in the face’ because its had so m…
Toddbrook Reservoir
The dam at Toddbrook. Source: Twitter By now many will no doubt be aware of the calamity that occur…
The Moon 1969
You’ll know what this is about! Its fifty years since humans first set foot on the moon. But …
A 1956 tube stock mystery
A special post about the 1956 tube stock. Piccadilly Circus station staff sent a tweet (one of thei…
Piccadilly Circus tube’s BSL
Piccadilly Circus tube station, one of the busiest on the tube, certainly in terms of tourism, is a…
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…
The Grand Surrey Canal #2
In the first instalment of this two part series, I looked at Oxestalls Road bridge, the Timberyard …
The Grand Surrey Canal #1
The Grand Surrey Canal is South London’s lost waterway. It stretched from the docks down towa…
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…
2001: A Space Odyssey
This Easter its fifty years since the classic space film, 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premi…
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…
Kursaal Amusement Park
It seems Blackpool Pleasure Beach has almost always been Britain’s biggest seaside theme park…
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…
Stuck in Miltown and furious!
If you were due a court appearance in Ennis over a counter claim by the West Clare Railway, simply …
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…
Central Line: beyond Caxton Road
A minor update of the article posted two years ago featuring the Central Line around Wood Lane/Whit…